 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 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...is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of ihe ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 páginas
...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 off, a continence which is practised hy few writers, and scarcely hy any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 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 where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 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 also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancient?,... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 520 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." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1838 - 542 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 oft, a conti|| nence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 páginas
...; and therefore he speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so also he knows where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few...writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting the authors of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the JEneid. The author of the Essay on the Understanding... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 456 páginas
...; and therefore he speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so also he knows where to leave off ; a continence which is practised by...writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting the authors "of the Iliad, the Odyssey and the JEneid. The author of the Essay on the Understanding... | |
 | 1845 - 816 páginas
...learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so no knows also when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few W"ter8, and scarcely by any of the ancients excepting Virgil and Horace, «ne of our late great poets... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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 [Cowley] is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive [forego ?] any conceit which came... | |
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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 practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the... 
