Peele, whose day was now well over ; and even for the firstfruits of ' a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet,' it will be admitted that the moral tone of Chapman's two earliest comedies is not remarkably... The Works of George Chapman ... - Стр. xxiiiавторы: George Chapman - 1875Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
| Walter Scott - 1810 - Страниц: 630
...and says he was highly valued, but not so much as Ben Jonson. The same writer adds, ' that " he was a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate qualities, rarely meeting in a poet." And another, * that " he was much resorted to latterly by young persons of parts as a poetical chronicle... | |
| Walter Scott - 1810 - Страниц: 630
...aas highly valued, but not so much as Ben Jonson. The same writer add*, 3 that " he wa» & per sen of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate qualities, rarely meeting in a poet? And another, * that u he mas much resorted to latterly by young persons of parts as a poetical chronicle... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1813 - Страниц: 542
...contemporaries, and was justly esteemed for the excellence of his moral character. Wood says that he was a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet." ' CHAPMAN (GEORGE), LL. D. a learned schoolmaster in -Scotland, was born at Alvah in the county of... | |
| Sir Egerton Brydges - 1816 - Страниц: 616
...Epistle to Henry Reynolds; and Wood, probably from hence, pronounces him to have been " a person of a most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet." The truth is (as the living Editor of Philips has remarked) he does not seem to have mingle*d in the... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1824 - Страниц: 504
...unexpectedly to be disturbed at the rising reputation of a new theatric rival. Wood says, that Chapman was " a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, QUALITIES RARELY MEETING IN APOETq!" The truth is, he does not seem to have mingled in the dissipations and indiscretions, which... | |
| John Platts - 1826 - Страниц: 830
...contemporaries, and was justly esteemed for the excellence of his moral character. Wood says that he was a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, qualities rarely meeting in a poet. JOHN EDWARD DU MONIN, a modern Latin poet, was born in the province of Burgundy, and published, in... | |
| Samuel Astley Dunham - 1837 - Страниц: 418
...than that of most dramatists, either at that or any other period. Old Antony tells us that "he was a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate ; qualities rarely meeting in a poet." He was cautious in the choice of his companions, and this added no little to his respectability. 2.... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1840 - Страниц: 550
...unexpectedly to be disturbed at the rising reputation of a new theatric rival. Wood says, that Chapman was " a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, QUALITIES RARELY MEETING IN A POET'!" The truth is, he does not seem to have mingled in the dissipations and indiscretions which then marked... | |
| Thomas Warton - 1840 - Страниц: 572
...unexpectedly to be disturbed at the rising reputation of a new theatric rival. Wood says, that Chapman was " a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate, QUALITIES RARELY MEETING IN А РОЕТЧ!" The truth is, he does not seem to have mingled in the dissipations and indiscretions... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1842 - Страниц: 734
...old Chapman, the translator of Homer and his Hymns. Wood tells us \_Ath. Oxon. i. 259,] that he was " a person of most reverend aspect, religious and temperate — qualities rarely meeting in a poet." Ecce tignum ! His temperance and his religion have sent him to the dogs, and scarcely one in a million... | |
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