 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 pagina’s
...a foot, and sometimes a whole tnc, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.4 We can onlvsay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that...perfection at the first. We must be children, before we grnw men. There was an Ennuis, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pagina’s
...for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our...we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of tune a Lucilius, and a lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pagina’s
...for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our...poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the tirst. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 pagina’s
...for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our...poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the his works miswritten, or his vearse mismeasured, may appeare in the end of his fift booke of 'Troylus... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1892 - 248 pagina’s
...Ancient and Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer,' John Dryden says, 'We must be children before we grow men. There was...Virgil and Horace : even after Chaucer there was a Spen%er, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being : and our numbers were in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1899 - 222 pagina’s
...for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our...the first. We must be children before we grow men. ********* He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive nature, because, as it has been... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 348 pagina’s
...pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that 15 nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We...a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller 20 and Denham were in being ; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared. I need... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 350 pagina’s
...for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that 15 nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was... | |
 | John Walker - 1904 - 814 pagina’s
...half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only eay that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at first." It is difficult, from the very abundance, to select a passage that might prove the harmony... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pagina’s
...for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry,...men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucullus, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harington,... | |
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We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. 
