 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
 | 1910 - 500 pagina’s
...sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he liv'd 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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - 788 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. . . . He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 pagina’s
...sometimes a whole one, and which no Pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he liv'd in the Infancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at the first. We must be Children before we grow " O Men. There was an Ennius, and in process of Time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - 924 pagina’s
...foot, and sometimes a whole [70 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. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - 268 pagina’s
...which we call heroick, was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 pagina’s
...foot, and 10 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,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 pagina’s
...tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. . . . We can only say that he lived 25 in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. . . . 1 a maker, a poet. 2 too much, excessively. 8Roman... | |
 | John Dryden - 1928 - 54 pagina’s
...foot, and sometimes 35 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,... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 pagina’s
...tune — which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect." -''We can only say," Dryden continues, "that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at first." But it would be a mistake to attribute the seeming naturalness of Chaucer's language to want... | |
 | 1880 - 902 pagina’s
...sometimes a whole one ; and he consoled himself with the reflection that this in other respects great poet lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children, he says, before we grow men, and our numbers were in their nonage till... | |
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