 | John Dryden - 1800 - 710 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets' is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets1 is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 370 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets f is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1805 - 376 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets f is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 1806 - 464 pages
...sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he also knows where to leave off; a continence, which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks propirly on all subjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off ; a continence...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 500 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets f is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | John Dryden, Sir Walter Scott - 1808 - 506 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets f is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | 1808 - 552 pages
...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say, so also he knows when to leave off: a continence which is practised...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Dryden, indeed has given us a sufficient proof in what estimation he... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 620 pages
...sensé ; 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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because be could... | |
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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... 
