 | George Lewis Smyth - 1826 - 1042 pages
...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 befpre we grow men. There was an Ennius ; and, in process of time, a Lucilius;... | |
 | George Lewis Smyth - London (England) - 1826 - 556 pages
...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 - 1832 - 342 pages
...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 - 1837 - 482 pages
...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 Knnius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...of the Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect * * * 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 can grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...of the Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect * * * 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 can grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucitius,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...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... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...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. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1852 - 324 pages
...the Scotch tune in it, which is natural and pleasing, though not perfect. * * * * We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection ai the first. We must be children before we can grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...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 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... 
