 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Isaac Newton, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman - Prefaces - 1910 - 458 pages
...immediately follow'd them. Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax, for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families....than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease. Milton... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 pages
...money, no matter how they pay it afterwards." In the quaint spirit of Sir Thomas Browne he says : " Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of...begotten by him two hundred years after his decease." The contemptuous disdain with which he dismisses Milbourne and Blackmore recalls the brilliant satire... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pages
...well as other Families : Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his Body ; and that he was begotten by him Two Hundred years after his Decease. Milton has acknowledg'd to me that Spencer was his Original ; . . . But to return : Having done with Ovid for... | |
 | Mary Augusta Scott - Comparative literature - 1916 - 656 pages
...ease and spirit, and with such a fine poetic feeling withal that it often reads Like an original poem. "Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original; and many besides my sol f have heard our famous Waller own that he derived the harmony of his numbers from Godfrey of... | |
 | Philology - 1917 - 692 pages
...Dryden remarks: Milton was the poetical son of Spenser ... for we have our lineal descents and dans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease. Milton... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1917 - 346 pages
...the Preface to his Fables, Dryden remarks: Milton was the poetical son of Spenser . . . for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates thai the soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred... | |
 | Edmund Spenser - 1923 - 238 pages
...well as other Families : Spencer more than once insinuates, that the Soul of Chaucer 10 was transfus'd into his Body ; and that he was begotten by him Two hundred years after his Decease. Milton has acknowledg'd to me, that Spencer was his Original. Sir Richard Steele The Spectator, No. 540, November... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 pages
...immediately followed them. Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families. Spenser more than once 20 insinuates, that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body ; and that he was begotten by... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax ; for we 'have our lineal descents and clans as well as other l5 families. Spenser more than once insinuates, that...acknowledged to me, that Spenser was his original ; and many 20 besides myself have heard our famous Waller own, that he derived the harmony of his numbers from... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...immediately follow'd them. Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax, for we have our lineal descents and clans as well as other families....than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfus'd into his body, and that he was begotten by him two hundred years after his decease. Milton... | |
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Milton was the poetical son of Spenser, and Mr. Waller of Fairfax ; for we have our lineal descents and clans, as well as other families. Spenser more than once insinuates that the soul of Chaucer was transfused into his body, and that he was begotten... 
