 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 páginas
...( and he always looks prepared for the drawingroom.) Of the oldest of the English Poets, (Chaucer) as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Greeks hold Homer (the author of the Iliad and Odyssey) or the Romans, hold Virgil (the author of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 páginas
...Homer (the author of the Iliad and Odyssey) or the Romans, hold Virgil (the author of the JEneid.) He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore he speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so also he knows where... | |
 | Horae - 1851 - 414 páginas
...JONSON. Dryden on Homer and Chaucer. CHAUCER is the father of Englim Poetry, fo I hold him in the lame degree of veneration as the Grecians held HOMER, or the Romans VIRGIL. Duelling. ?O fight a duel is a thing that all governments are bound to reftrain with the higheft feverity.... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1853 - 542 páginas
...notable rhetor. Dryden says, in the preface prefixed to his " Fables," — " As Chaucer is the lather of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...Virgil, the pattern of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I Jove Shakspeare. CHAUCKR AND COWLEY. hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held In the first place, as lie is the father of English poetry, so [ Homer, or the Romans Virsjil. He is... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 páginas
...of elaborate writing: I admire him, but I love Shakspeare. CHAUCER AND COWLEY. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him...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... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 páginas
...the Fables : — 1700.1 (Contrast between Chaucer and Cowley.) In the first place, as he (Chaucer) is the Father of English poetry, so I hold him in...perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly 1 John Dryden was born in Northamptonshire, in 1632, and died 1700.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 páginas
...party, (and he always looks prepared for the drawingroom.) Of the oldest of the English Poets, (Chancer) as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Greeks hold Homer (the author of the Iliad and Odyssey) or the Romans, hold Virgil (the author of the... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1858 - 466 páginas
...(and he always looks prepared for the drawingTOOTH.) Of the oldest of the English Poets, (Chaucer) as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Greeks hold Homer (the author of the Iliad and Odyssey) or the Romans, hold Virgil (the author of the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 páginas
...of it they were equal. It remains that I say somewhat of Chaucer in particular. In the first place, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him...perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all suhjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave... | |
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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. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense... 
