 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1925 - 424 pages
...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... | |
 | William Joseph Long - English literature - 1925 - 844 pages
...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. 8... | |
 | John Dryden - Drama - 1928 - 54 pages
...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 - English language - 1928 - 638 pages
...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 - English language - 1928 - 632 pages
...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... | |
 | American essays - 1880 - 902 pages
...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... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 498 pages
...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... | |
 | Kevin Pask - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 238 pages
...immediately after Dryden considers the supposed imperfections of Chaucer's verse: 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,... | |
 | Christopher Cannon - Foreign Language Study - 1998 - 468 pages
...the very difficulties that had to be excused in Chaucer's language ("we can only say, that he liv'd in the Infancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at the first") becomes the very ground for his subsequent importance ("We must be Children before we grow... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 378 pages
...Modern (1700) in which he absolves Chaucer from the disgrace of metrical irregularity: 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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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... 
