...with Spenser came Milton's emphatic reference to him in the " Areopagitica" as "the sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." Of the four greatest English poets — Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton — two may be said to...

...blank virtue, not a pure ; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness; 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...

...surely excellent. MICHAEL DRAYTON. Here's that creates a poet. — FRANCIS QUARLES. Our sage and serious Spenser, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas. — JOHN MILTON. Milton has acknowledged to me that Spenser was his original. — JOHN DRYDEN. Spenser...

...— the hushed, hallowed, solemnized, sublimed mood of philosophy. Even of Spenser Milton says, " Him I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas ;" and, certainly, these are the two greatest philosophical names throughout the whole of the Middle Ages....

...blank virtue, not a pure; bar whiteneja is but an excremental whiteness : 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 ot Guion, brings him in with his Palmer through the cave...

...blank virtue, not a pure ; her 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 then Scotus or Aquinas, describing true temperance under the person of Guyon, brings him in with his...

...and Prose Complete OF SPENSER AND DANIEL. (I.) EDMUND SPENSER. ' Our sa%e and serious Poet Spencer, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas.' JOHN MILTON, Arcopagitica (Works : edition Mitford, 1851 : II. p. 412.) HAT a new critical and more...

...in the highest vocation of all, that of teacher, and Milton calls him " our sage and serious poet, whom I dare be known to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." And good Dr. Henry More was of the same mind. I fear he makes his vices so beautiful now and then that...

...blank virtue, not a pure; her whiteness is but an excremental whiteness ; 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 Guyon, brings him in with Ids palmer through the cave...

...some reflection on the nature of allegorical writing :"*» MILTON in the 'Areopagitica ' calls him, " Our sage and serious poet Spenser, whom I dare be...to think a better teacher than Scotus or Aquinas." On the other hand, HAZLITT tells us that if people " do not meddle with the allegory, the allegory...