 | Robert Maynard Leonard - English literature - 1912 - 788 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. . . . He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive... | |
 | Absolute criticism - 1912 - 396 pages
...call heroiek, was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age. . . . 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 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. iThere was an Eiuiius, and in process of Time a Lucilitis,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - 582 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 " O Men. There was an Ennius, and in process of Time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...foot, and sometimes a whole [70 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. He must have been a man of a most wonderful comprehensive... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 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,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 692 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. The tone of this passage is in such obvious contrast with those of the Elizabethans, that we... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1924 - 660 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. The tone of this passage is in such obvious contrast with those of the Elizabethans, that we... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - English literature - 1924 - 268 pages
...which we call heroick, was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age 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... | |
 | John Dryden, William Congreve, Samuel Johnson, Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1925 - 230 pages
...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 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... 
