| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...seen in the invention, the fertility in the fancy, and the accuracy in the expression. DRYDEN. He knew ict examination ; and am as much ashamed to put DRYDEN. What can be urged for them who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 páginas
...He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets t is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but... | |
| James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 páginas
...He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets35 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 páginas
...Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her." 3 This points to... | |
| John Dryden - 1897 - 170 páginas
...Virgil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects; as he knew what to say, so he knows...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond her: and there is a great... | |
| John Dryden - 1897 - 126 páginas
...Vergil: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences: and therefore speaks properly on all subjects; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practiced by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Vergil and Horace. . . . "The... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 114 páginas
...: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets 1 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 170 páginas
...He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." " Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond her; and there is a great... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 148 páginas
...: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects; as he knew what to say, so he knows...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond her: and there is a great... | |
| John Dryden - 1898 - 120 páginas
...he is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences : and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practiced by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Vergil and Horace. . . . "... | |
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