 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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 - 1912 - 436 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 which is practis'd by few Writers, and scarcely by any of the Ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 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 which is practis'd by few Writers, and scarcely by any of the Ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of... | |
 | George Lyman Kittredge - 1915 - 250 pages
...antithetic_affectatioris moved the admiration of Dryden, who loundin Chaucer a "continence," so he calls it, "which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Dryden, as a matter of course, could not rid himself of the queer notion... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 468 pages
...sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also [10 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... | |
 | Julian Willis Abernethy - 1916 - 604 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. . . . The verse of Chaucer, I confess, is not harmonious to us; there is... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1922 - 330 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...by 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, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 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. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pages
...Roman poet (AD 30-65). 8 Latin poet (about AD 40-102). 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... | |
 | Alan Lubbock - 1925 - 42 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... | |
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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... 
