Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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... "
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N ... - Page 13
by John Mason Good - 1819
Full view - About this book

Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1845 - 454 pages
...; 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...
Full view - About this book

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57

1845 - 816 pages
...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...
Full view - About this book

Specimens of the British Critics

John Wilson - 1846 - 360 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...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...
Full view - About this book

Outlines of the History of the English Language

George Lillie Craik - 1851 - 192 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 [Cowley] is sunk in his reputation, because...
Full view - About this book

Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 468 pages
...sciences; 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 ^Eneid. The author of the Essay on the Understanding...
Full view - About this book

Aids to English Composition, Prepared for Students of All Grades: Embracing ...

Richard Green Parker - 1851 - 472 pages
...; 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 -35neid. The author of the Essay on the Understanding...
Full view - About this book

A Practical System of Rhetoric

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1852 - 324 pages
...sciences ; and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, io he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely bj any of the ancients, excepting Homer and Virgil. "Chaucer frllowed nature every where; but was never...
Full view - About this book

The Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Poets, Philosophers ..., Volume 1

Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1853 - 542 pages
...therefore speaks properly on all subjects ; as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave oif, a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The " Romaunt of the...
Full view - About this book

English style

George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 416 pages
...or refinement, but unrivalled in power, vigour, and eloquence. 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 poets (Cowley) is sunk in his reputation because he could...
Full view - About this book

Aids to English Composition: Prepared for Students of All Grades

Richard Green Parker - 1857 - 464 pages
...; 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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF