 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - 1925 - 230 Seiten
...want of half a 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...Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being ; and our numbers were in their nonage... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1925 - 704 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - 844 Seiten
...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...the first. We must be children before we grow men. . . . 1 a maker, a poet. 2 too much, excessively. 8 Roman poet (87-54 BC). *Roman historian (AD 55-117).... | |
 | John Dryden - 1926 - 342 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 15 nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1928 - 54 Seiten
...want of half a 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...after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a 5 Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being ; and our numbers were in their nonage till these... | |
 | George Harley McKnight - 1928 - 638 Seiten
...Scotch 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... | |
 | George Harley McKnight, Bert Emsley - 1928 - 632 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Robert Aris Willmott - 1928 - 244 Seiten
...afternoon. How fortunate he has been in critics and fame! "Nothing," is the trite saying of Dryden, "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 numbers... | |
 | 1880 - 902 Seiten
...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...brought to perfection at the first. We must be children, he says, before we grow men, and our numbers were in their nonage till Waller and Denham appeared !... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 1134 Seiten
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only .--ay that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that...nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must bo children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius... | |
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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. 
