 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace j even after Chaucer there was a Spencer , a Harrington^ a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being : And our Numbers were in their Nonage till thefe laft appear'd. I need fay little of his Parentage, Life, and Fortunes : They are to be found at large in... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...only fay, that he lived in the " infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to per" fe&ion at the firft. We muft be children before we grow "...a " man of a moft wonderful comprehenfive nature, becaufc, •' as it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into *' the compafs of his Canterbury... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being: and our numbers were in their nonage till thefe laft appeared. I need fay little of his parentage, life, and fortunes : they are to be found at large in all the editions... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being: and our numbers were in their nonage till thefe laft appeared. I need fay little of his parentage, life, and fortunes: they are to be found at large in all the editions... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1773 - 498 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer, there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being : and our numbers...afterwards adds) have been a man of a moft wonderful compreheniive nature, becaufe, aa it has been truly obferved of him, he has taken into the compafs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 pages
...aLucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in. being : and our...numbers were in their nonage till thefe' laft appeared. Ineed fay little of his parentage, life, and' fortunes : they are to be found at large in all the editions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being : and our numbers were in their nonage till thefc laft appeared. Ineed fay littleof h:s parentage, life, and fortunes : they are to be found at... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being: and our numbers were in their nonage till thefe laft appeared. I need fay little of his parentage, life, and fortunes: they are to be found at large in all the editions... | |
 | 1793 - 806 pages
...Horace; even after Chaucer, there was a Spcnfcr, a Hirrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denhim were in being ; and our numbers were in their nonage till thefe ЦП appeared. I need fay little of his parentage, life, and fortunes ; they are to be found at large... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1795 - 322 pages
...Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even " after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, " before Waller and Denham were in being ; and our numbers " were in their nonage till thefe Iaft appeared." * I faean his Canterbury Tales.] The fcheme of this work is in every r:-fpeft very... | |
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We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our... 
