 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 pages
...Dryden, as well as his poems themselves. Dryden remarks, " As he was 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 has a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1902 - 558 pages
...Dr. Johnson observes, that Chaucer was the first English poet who wrote poetically ; and Dryden holds him in the same degree of veneration, as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. MlCHEL-ANGE BUONAROTA . I GRAY. THOMAS GRAY, who has been characterised as the British Pindar, wag... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...therefore, to apologize for . the following extracts : — " As he is the Father of English Poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians...perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, That the is sent, receve in buxomenesse ; The wrastlyng of this worlde askiih a falle ; Here is no... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 556 pages
...therefore, to apologize for the following extracts : — " As he is the Father of English Poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians...perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, That the is sent, receve in buxomenesse ; The wrastlyng of this worlde askiih a falle ; Here is no... | |
 | George Crabb - 1826 - 768 pages
...we hold it in abhorrence, or we hold it sacred ; ' As 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. We maintain or support truth or error ; we maintain an influence over ourselves, or maintain... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 pages
...summer's flies that fear not winter's cold. Fairfax. As 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. Dry den. Ye Latían James, if any here, Hold your unhappy queen Amata dear ! Id. Hold such in reputation.... | |
 | 1834 - 304 pages
...says, in the preface prefixed to his Fables, — " As Chaucer is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians...therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he kne\v what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised by few writers,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...equalled them to him in their esteem. " Of Chaucer, he says, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians...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?,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...equalled them to him in their esteem. " Of Chaucer, he says, as he is the father of English poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians...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,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...the father of Eng* lish poetry, so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians hold Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain...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... | |
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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. 
