 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 - الصفحة xxvبواسطة John Bell - 1782عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | 1910 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...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... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 582
...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 - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 924
...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... | |
 | Harko Gerrit de Maar - 1924 - عدد الصفحات: 268
...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 - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 230
...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,... | |
 | William Joseph Long - 1925 - عدد الصفحات: 844
...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. 8Roman... | |
 | John Dryden - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 54
...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, Bert Emsley - 1928 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...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... | |
 | 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 902
...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... | |
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