 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 páginas
...thought needful in this place to say of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer, considering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the...of the Roman tongue; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike: both of them were wellbred, well-natured,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 páginas
...our barren tongue from the Provenjal, " which was then the most polished of all modern languages." " With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began." Being distinctly interested in geomancy himself, Dryden was pleased to add that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 páginas
...the trial, by turning some of the Canterbury Tales into our language, as it is now refined. ********* With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike : both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 páginas
...thought needful in this place to say of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer; consider.20 ing the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the...the Roman tongue ; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. *"TEe manners of the poets were not unlike. Both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1904 - 762 páginas
...Homer. I proceed to Dvid and Chaucer, considering the former only in relation to the latter. With Dvid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue : from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike : both of (hem »ere well-bred, well-natured,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...thought needful in this place to say of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer, considering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the...of the Roman tongue; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike: both of them were well-bred, well-natured,... | |
 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, John Heminge, Henry Condell, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - 638 páginas
...thought needful in this place to say of Homer. I proceed to Ovid and Chaucer, considering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the...of the Roman tongue; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike: both of them were well bred, well natur'd,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1911 - 430 páginas
...disadvantage on the Side of the Modern Author, as I shall endeavour to prove when I compare them : With Ovid ended the Golden Age of the Roman Tongue : From Chaucer the [sign. "B i.] Pnrity of the English Tongue began. The Manners of the Poete were not unlike : Both of... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 páginas
...and that of honey. Preface to Sylvce CHAUCER 1 proceed to Ovid and Chaucer, considering the former only in relation to the latter. With Ovid ended the...the Roman tongue ; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike. . . . Both of them built on the inventions... | |
 | 1923 - 346 páginas
...of structure at its perfection, can write sentences astonishingly like those in the Essay on Milton: With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. The manners of the poets were not unlike. In 100 sentences of the Preface to... | |
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With Ovid ended the golden age of the Roman tongue ; from Chaucer the purity of the English tongue began. 
