 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...compass than two months. 2. CHAUCER. 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...CHAUCER AND COWLEY. 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 - 1859 - 480 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 suhjects... | |
 | Lars Edman - English language - 1861 - 100 pages
...little upon this subject. "As he (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;... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...CHAUCER AND COWLEV. 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.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...CHAUCER AND COWLEY. 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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...CHAUCER AND COWLEY. 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.... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1869 - 308 pages
...• In the first place, as he (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's Preface to Tbe Fables.) 2. Some few nouns (originally forming the plural in -an) have -en,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1897 - 764 pages
...in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, fo 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 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... 
