...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil : he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly...is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of ihe ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great poets is sunk in his reputation, because...

...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences; and therefore speaks properly...subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancient?,...

...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense ; learned in all sciences ; and therefore speaks properly...subjects. As he knew what to say, so he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients,...

...perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly on all suhjects : as he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave off, a continence which is practised hy few writers, and scarcely hy any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace. One of our late great...

...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil; he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly...any of the ancients, excepting Virgil and Horace." Our account of his principal works must be brief. The Romaunt of the Rose is professedly a translation...

...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or I the Romans Virgil ; he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly...he knew what to say, so he knows also when to leave oft, a conti|| nence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by any of the ancients, excepting...

...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. 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, BO he knows also where to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers, and scarcely by...

...Chaucer I hold in veneration as the father of English poetry: he is a perpetual fountain of good sense, learned in all sciences, and, therefore, speaks properly on all subjects. As he knew what to sat/, so he knew also ichen to leave off; a continence which is practised by few writers. 2 We may...

...veneration as the Grecians held Homer, or the Romans Virgil. He is a perpetual fountain of good sense; learned in all sciences, and therefore speaks properly...late great poets is sunk in his reputation because he could never forgive any conceit which came in his way ; but swept like a drag-net great and small....

...; 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...