 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 pages
...whiteness is but an excremental whiteness : which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser, — whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas,8 — describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him in with his palmer7... | |
 | King's College London - 1877 - 308 pages
...by name. It is strange, too, that he never once refers to Spenser, of whom Milton so boldly said, " Whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus and Aquinas"' ('Areopagitica '). found a favourable opportunity for doing so in the rise of the Independents.*... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 532 pages
...that he considered it " not to be matched in any modern language." " Our sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." — Milton. " The grave and diligent Spenser." — Ben Jonson. "Here's that creates a poet." — Quarles.... | |
 | Frederick Arnold - 1878 - 428 pages
...trial, and trial is by what is contrary ; which was the reason why our sage, serious poet Spenser — whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas — describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him, with his palmer, through the... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 462 pages
...whiteness is but an excremental whiteness. Which was the reason why 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 Guión, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1878 - 556 pages
...that he considered it " not to be matched in any modern language." " Our sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." — Milton. " The grave and diligent Spenser."— Ben Jonson. " Here's that creates a poet." — Quarles.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...the study and attention which he gave with no ordinary sympathy to ' our sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus and Aquinas.' These words of Milton's suggest some leading characteristics of the Spenserian school.... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...them the study and attention which he gave with no ordinary sympathy to 'our sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus and Aquinas.' These words of Milton's suggest some leading characteristics of the Spenserian school.... | |
 | 1881 - 578 pages
...whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spencer, rule to know a fool from a wise man, "Mitte describing true temperance under the person of Guion, brings him in with his palmer through the cave... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 538 pages
...most delightful of his own poems in his stanza. Dryden claimed him for a master. Milton called him ' our sage and serious poet, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas? How so? Because he revealed, in lowly aspect, the ideal point of view; gave to souls a consciousness... | |
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... our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas... 
