 | Juvenal - 1726 - 468 sidor
...look'd. At lad I had recoufe to his Mailer, Spencer, the Author of that immortal Poem call'd the Fairy Queen} and there I met with that which I had been looking for fo long in vain. Sfenctr\ had ftudy'd Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer*, and amongft the reft of... | |
 | Juvenal - 1735 - 512 sidor
...recourfe to his Matter, Spencer, the Author of that immortal Poem call'd theFairyQueen ; and there 1 met with that which I had been looking for fo long in vain. Spencer had ftudy'd Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer ', and amongfl the reft of... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 sidor
...looked. At laft I had recourfe to his mafrer, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been looking for fo lon^ in vain. Spencer had ftudied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer ; and amongft... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 476 sidor
...looked. At laft I had recourfe to his mafter, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been looking for fo lon^ in vain. Spencer had ftudied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer ; and amongft... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 sidor
...looked. At laft I had recourfe to his mafter, Spencer, the author of that immortal poem called the Fairy Queen; and there I met with that which I had been looking for fo long in vain. Spencer had ftudied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer ; and amongft the reft of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 390 sidor
...looked. At laft I had recourfe to hismafter, Spenfer, the author of that immortal poem called The Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been...language, are on the turn of the firft thought; which Mr. \Valfh, in his late ingenious preface to his poems, has obferved. In fhort, Virg:l and Ovid are the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 398 sidor
...author of that immortal poem called The Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been locking for fo long in vain. Spenfer had ftudied Virgil to...Italian, I found Taffo had done the fame; nay more, that'all the fonnets in that language, are on the turn of the firft thought ; which Mr. Walfh, in his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 1130 sidor
...At laft I had recourfe to his 111:1fter, Spenfer, the author of that immortal poem called The Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been looking for fo long in vain. Spenfer had ihidied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer; and amongft the reft of his excellencies... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 384 sidor
...looked. At laft I had reconrfe to his mafter, Spenfer, the author of that immortal poem called The Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been looking for fo long in vain c Spenfer had ftudied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer ; and amongft the reft of... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 388 sidor
...looked. At laft I had recourfe to his mafter, Spenfer, the author of that immortal poem called The Fairy Queen ; and there I met with that which I had been...to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer; and among the reft of his excellencies had copied that. Looking farther into the Italian, I found Taffo... | |
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Queen ;" and there I met with that which I had been looking for so long in vain. Spenser had studied Virgil to as much advantage as Milton had done Homer ; and amongst the rest of his excellencies had copied that. 
