 | John Platts - Biography - 1825 - 562 pages
...time he wrote. " As he is the father of English poetry," says Mr. Dryilen, " 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.... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 558 pages
...observes, that Chaucer was the first English poet who wrote poetically ; and Dryden holds him in the same degree of veneration, as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. MlCHEL-ANGE BUONAROTA . I GRAY. THOMAS GRAY, who has been characterised as the British Pindar, wag... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...for . the following extracts : — " 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, That the is sent, receve in buxomenesse... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...for the following extracts : — " 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, That the is sent, receve in buxomenesse... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 768 pages
...abhorrence, or we hold it sacred ; ' As Chaucer 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.' DRYDEN. We maintain or support truth or error ; we maintain an influence over ourselves, or maintain... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 806 pages
...fear not winter's cold. Fairfax. As Chaucer 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. Dry den. Ye Latían James, if any here, Hold your unhappy queen Amata dear ! Id. Hold such in reputation.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 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... | |
 | Biography - 1834 - 454 pages
...prefixed to his Fables, — " As Chaucer 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... | |
 | Biography - 1834 - 304 pages
...prefixed to his Fables, — " As Chaucer 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 - 1837 - 482 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... | |
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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... 
