 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 - Seite xxvvon John Bell - 1782Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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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