 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 Seiten
...want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.4 We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our...Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Don ham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared. THE HEATHEN REASON... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 Seiten
...afternoon. How fortunate he has been in critics and fame! "Nothing," is the trite saying of Dry den, " is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. Even after Chaucer there was a Spenser ; a Fairfax before Waller and Denham were in being ; and our... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 Seiten
...want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.4 We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our...Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Detiham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared. THE HEATHEN REASON... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 Seiten
...fur 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...Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer, there was a Spencer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being ; and our numbers were in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1859 - 480 Seiten
...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 hrought to perfection at the first. We must he children hefore we grow men. There was an Ennius, and... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 Seiten
...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...Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer, there was a Spencer, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 Seiten
...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,...process of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius before Vergil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...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...Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Deuham were in being; and our numbers were in their nonage till these last appeared. did, THE HEATHEN... | |
 | John Walker - 1865 - 800 Seiten
...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 first." It is difficult, from the very abundance, to select a passage that might prove the harmony... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 Seiten
...his 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...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, and... | |
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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. 
