 | John Dryden - Fables - 1713 - 614 pages
...fometimes a whole one, and which no Pronunciation can make othervvite. We can only fay, that he liv'd in the Infancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at the firil. We muft be Children before we grow Men. There was an Ennim, and in procefs of Time a Luciliusy... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1760 - 526 pages
...a foot, and fometimes a whole one% and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that...an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilius, and a Lqcretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax,... | |
 | Biography - 1761 - 614 pages
...foot, and *' fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can " make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the " infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to per*' fedtion at the firft. We muft be children before we grow " men. There was Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 pages
...foot, and " fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can " make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the " infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to per" fe&ion at the firft. We muft be children before we grow " men. There was Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 392 pages
...a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the firfl. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1767 - 396 pages
...a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfeftion at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | Joseph Towers - Bio-bibliography - 1773 - 498 pages
...which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always praclifed in Chaucer's age. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that...men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilina and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer, there was a Spenfer, a Harrington,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 352 pages
...a foot, and fometimea a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that...we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of timeaLucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 360 pages
...a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that...muft be children before we grow men. There was an Enn'ms, and in procefs of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwiie. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfeftion at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Enuius, and in prccefs... | |
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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. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace... 
