 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - 1910 - 458 pages
...subjects: as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practic'd by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients,...excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets13 is sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 pages
...sciences, and therefore ""Plenty has made me poor." — Meta. iii. 466. "By Ben Jonson. speaks properly on all subjects: as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave qff, a continence which is practic'd by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 pages
...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 sunk in his reputation, because he could never forgo any conceit which came in his way ; but swept like a drag-net, great and small. There was plenty... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 pages
...He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learn'd 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. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been truly observed... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 pages
...•Virgil: He is a perpetual Fountain of good Sense; learn 'd 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 practis'd by few Writers, and scarcely by any of the Ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...is a perpetual > Fountain of good Sense ; learn'd 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 practis'd by few Writers, and scarcely by any of the Ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge - 1915 - 250 pages
...antithetic_affectatioris moved the admiration of Dryden, who loundin Chaucer a "continence," so he calls it, "which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Dryden, as a matter of course, could not rid himself of the queer notion that Chaucer "lived in the... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pages
...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also [10 an company beciuse he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way, but swept, like a drag-net, great... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 pages
...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 when to leave off, a continence which is practiced by few writers. . . . The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; there is... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 944 pages
...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 [10 when to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients,... | |
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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... 
