 | John Dryden - 1800 - 662 pages
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a -perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...in particular. In the firft place, as he is the father of Englifh poetry, fo I hold him in the fame degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good fenfe; learned in allfciences; and therefore fpeaks properly on all fubjeos:... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...in particular. In the firft place, as he is the father of Englifh poetry, fo I hold him in the fame degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good fenfe ; learned in all fciences -, und therefore fpeaks properly on all... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 370 pages
...usual style. " In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...usual style. " In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks propirly on all subjects... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all... | |
 | English literature - 1808 - 546 pages
...be found in the works of Cowley and his cotemporaries. " I hold Chaucer," says Dryden, " in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all... | |
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In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer or the Romans Virgil... 
