 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1895 - 944 pages
...acknowledged that " he cuts us all out, and the ancients too ; " he who held Chaucer " in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil," surely had no narrow conception of the poetic art. But apart from his breadth of view there are three... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 366 pages
...Chaucer he is yet more explicit. "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 - 1897 - 170 pages
...English poet.] 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 - Readers - 1898 - 148 pages
...English poet.] 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 - 1898 - 170 pages
...other matters : " 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 - 1899 - 222 pages
...manufactures. 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;... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 pages
...into current English. " As he is the father of English poetry," he says, "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 - Criticism - 1900 - 350 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 ofgood sense ; learn'd in all 35 sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - English literature - 1900 - 644 pages
...remarks on Chaucer— 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 ou all subjects.... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Thompson, Thomas Budd Shaw - English literature - 1901 - 862 pages
...sincere veneration for 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" — has failed to reproduce the more delicate and subtle qualities of his model. Its splendour, its... | |
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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... 
