| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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