 | John Platts - Biography - 1825
...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 - 424 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 - 959 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 - 1826
...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 - 688 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 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1829
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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... 
