 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. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace...  Bell's Edition - Pagina xxvdoor John Bell - 1782Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 pagina’s
...criticism, and, in judging Chaucer's metres, has not considered changes of pronunciation. , We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. \Ve must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pagina’s
...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 first. \Ye must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilins,... | |
 | 1878 - 718 pagina’s
...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 first." With this fuller illustration, I reiterate the remarks which I have already expressed upon... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pagina’s
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.30 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. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pagina’s
...oration of Calvus as ''vcrbis ornata et sententiis auribusque judicum accommodata." 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. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 pagina’s
...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 first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 pagina’s
...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 first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 pagina’s
...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 first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
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