 | John Dryden - 1926 - 344 pages
...learn'd in all 35 3040-2 S 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 5 Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...learn'd in all 35 3040-2 S 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 5 Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because he could... | |
 | John Dryden - 1928 - 54 pages
...; learn'd in all sciences ; and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what 25 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 laj£_g££atipoe£s is sunk / in his reputation, because ne... | |
 | 1880 - 886 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 Virgil and Horace." But in... | |
 | 1909 - 498 pages
...made me poor." — Meta, Hi. 466. "By Ben Jonson. speaks properly on all subjects: as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practic'd by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 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 poets0 is sunk in his reputation because he could... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 pages
...sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks 355 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... | |
 | 62 pages
...good 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 - 1960 - 692 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... | |
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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... 
