...by Dryden 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....

...by Dryden 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....

...the Earl of Essex in Westminster Abbey, and the Countess of Dorset raised a monument to his memory. Milton, in his " Areopagitica," speaks of "Our sage and serious poet, Spenser, whom I dare to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." SUCKLING, Sir John, poet and courtier, was born...

...extended to 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....

...extended to 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....

...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...

...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...

...extended to 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....

...promises to her followers and rejects it, is but a blank virtue, not a grace ; which was the reason why our sage and serious poet Spenser (whom I dare be...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...

...Henry VIII. Tutor to Edward VI. Spenser, Edmund, about 1553 — 1598. 'Our sage and seNOTE V. 289 rious poet, Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas.' — Milton, Areopagitica. King James I. Bacon, Lord, 1561 — 1626. Selden,fohn, 1584 — 1654. Twysden,...