 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...seen in the invention, the fertility in the fancy, and the accuracy in the expression. DRYDEN. He knew ict examination ; and am as much ashamed to put DRYDEN. What can be urged for them who, not having the vocation of poverty to scribble, out of mere... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 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 poets35 is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 pages
...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...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 - 1897 - 170 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 126 pages
...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, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Vergil and Horace. . . . "The... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 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." " Chaucer followed nature everywhere, but was never so bold to go beyond... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 148 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 120 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 which is practiced by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Vergil and Horace. . . . "... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 224 pages
...than to invent themselves ; as is evident not only in our poetry, but in many of our manufactures. he knows also when to leave off, a continence which...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. Chaucer followed nature everywhere; but was never so bold to go beyond... | |
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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... 
