| John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...fay of Homer. I proceed to Ovid, and Chaucer; confidering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the Golden Age of the Roman Tongue : From Chaucer the Purity of the Englijk Tongue began. The Manners of the Poets were' not unlike : Both of them were wellbred, well-natur'd,... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...fay of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer ; confidering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the EngHfh tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike : both of th.ern \vere we}l- bred, well-natured,... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...latter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue: from Chaucer the purity of the Englifh tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike:...well-bred, well-natured, amorous, and libertine, at leaft in their writings, it may be alfo in their lives. Their ftudies were the fame, philofophy and... | |
| John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...fay of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer; confidering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue: from Chaucer the purity of the Englifh tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike: both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 356 pages
...fay of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer ; confulering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the Englifli tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike : both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer ; confidering the former only in relation to the latter. Witr.t Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue: from Chaucer the purity of the EnglHh tongue be'gan. The manners of the poets were not unlike*: both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...fay of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer; confiderjng the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue: from Chaucer the purity of the Englith tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike: both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
| 1793 - 806 pages
...of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer ; corrfideririg the former only, in relation to the tetter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the F.nglifh tongue began. The manners of the poet» were not unlike : both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 842 pages
...latter. With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongne : from Chaucer the purity of the Englifh tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike : both of them were well-bred, well-natured, amotcru*, and libertine, at Icafl ia their writings, it may be alfo in their lives. Their fturlies... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...fay of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer; coniidering the formet only in relation to the latter. e ravenous birds return : Or from the dark recefTes where they lie, Or from another Engliih tongue began. The manners of the poets were unlike: both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
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