 | 1858 - 860 pages
...race, where tbat immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat, . . which was the reawn why our sage and serious poet Spenser (whom I dare be known to think a bolter tewher than Aquinas or Scotus), describing true temperance under the person of Guion, •"ings... | |
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...whiteuefs is but an excremental whitenefs ; which was the reafon why our fage and ferious poet Spenfer, (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas,) defcribing true Temperance under the perfon of Guion, brings him in with his palmer through the cave... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...disguise him, he says, " let me pocket up my pedler's exert" ment." F Scotus or Aquinas*, describing tme Temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in...with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the BOUT of earthly Blisse that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness, which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since therefore the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the constituting... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...was the reason why our sage and jcriqus poet Spenser, whom I dare be known ^to think~aTEetteFTeacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing true temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in twlth his Palmpr)ihrniigh the cave of Mammon, and I th~e bower ofearthly bliss, that he might sec and... | |
 | Biography - 1834 - 454 pages
...that his virtue was not unworthy of his genius. Milton speaks of him as " our sage and serious poet, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." ' The Shepherd's Calendar,' the first of Spenser's works in print, is generally said to have come out... | |
 | George Crabbe - Poets, English - 1834 - 358 pages
...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary to the conThis world... | |
 | George Crabbe - 1834 - 358 pages
...whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spet'ser (whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than...the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know,and yet abstain. Since, therefore, the knowledge and survey of vice is in this world so necessary... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet...Aquinas,) describing true temperance under the person of Guión, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss, that... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...perhaps, in his mind Plato's beau ideal ol'a judge ; an old man who, in advancing through his long career, our sage and serious poet, Spenser, (whom I dare be...him in with his palmer through' the cave of Mammon, (3S) and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might see and know, and yet abstain. 24. Since therefore... | |
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... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas, describing true temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave of Mammon, and the bower of earthly bliss,... 
