 | Education, Higher - 1882 - 498 pages
...German : 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. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects.... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1885 - 534 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... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...noble Chaucer. — MICHAEL DRAYTON. 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.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1871 - 524 pages
...the original. " As Chaucer," he said, " 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Clarendon Press series - 1889 - 334 pages
...8 ' 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 The Fables.} the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Reading - 1889 - 334 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 The Fables.) the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - Canterbury (England) - 1889 - 332 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 The Fables^ the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - English literature - 1891 - 728 pages
...particular.34 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... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1892 - 348 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 The Fables.} the young student feel disposed to make himself acquainted with the... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 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 : lie is a. perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in. all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly... | |
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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... 
