 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 644 pages
...good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly ou 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. The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; but it is like... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pages
...learn'd in all 35 u. s 1 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1901 - 808 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 practised by fewwriters, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. . . . Chaucer followed... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 426 pages
...all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so 30 he knows when to leave off; a continence which is practised...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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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 MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 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... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - 778 pages
...good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to Who hadst deserved more than a prison. CAL. You taught me language; and my profit excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poetsi is sunk in his reputation because he could... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 pages
...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...few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because,... | |
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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... 
