Essays: Biographical, Critical, and Historical; Illustrative of the Tatler, Spectator, and Guardian, Volume 2Suttaby, Evance, and Fox, 1814 - English literature |
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Page 66
... Chaucer and Cowley , an example of his more subdued and usual style . " In the first place , as he is the father of English poetry , so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer , or the Romans Virgil . He ...
... Chaucer and Cowley , an example of his more subdued and usual style . " In the first place , as he is the father of English poetry , so I hold him in the same degree of veneration as the Grecians held Homer , or the Romans Virgil . He ...
Page 67
... Chaucer followed nature every where ; but was never so bold to go beyond her : and there is a great difference of being poeta , and nimis poeta , if we may believe Catullus , as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation . The ...
... Chaucer followed nature every where ; but was never so bold to go beyond her : and there is a great difference of being poeta , and nimis poeta , if we may believe Catullus , as much as betwixt a modest behaviour and affectation . The ...
Page 68
... Chaucer's age . It were an easy matter to pro- duce some thousands of his verses , which are lame for want of half a foot , and sometimes a whole one , and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.t We can only say , that he lived in ...
... Chaucer's age . It were an easy matter to pro- duce some thousands of his verses , which are lame for want of half a foot , and sometimes a whole one , and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.t We can only say , that he lived in ...
Page 123
... with size sould , and cater denere , for vi S. and iiij d . The fine courtier will talke no- thyng but CHAUCER . The misticall wisemen , and poeticall clerkes , will speake nothyng but quainte proverbes , AND TASTE OF ADDISON . 123.
... with size sould , and cater denere , for vi S. and iiij d . The fine courtier will talke no- thyng but CHAUCER . The misticall wisemen , and poeticall clerkes , will speake nothyng but quainte proverbes , AND TASTE OF ADDISON . 123.
Page 169
... Chaucer , Shakspeare , Butler , Swift , Addison , Arbuthnot , Fielding , Smollett , & c . writers whose knowledge of human life , and whose powers of ridicule ` and humour , have never been surpassed . From this phalanx of genius it has ...
... Chaucer , Shakspeare , Butler , Swift , Addison , Arbuthnot , Fielding , Smollett , & c . writers whose knowledge of human life , and whose powers of ridicule ` and humour , have never been surpassed . From this phalanx of genius it has ...
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