 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 ページ
...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 526 ページ
...which we call Heroic, was either pot known, or not always. practiled in Chaucer's age. It were an eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which...infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | 1761 - 614 ページ
...we call heroick, " was either not known or not always praftifed in Chaucer's " age : it were an eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of " his verfes,...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 ページ
...we call heroick, " was either not known or not always praftifed in Chaucer's " age : it were an eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of " his verfes,...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 - 1767 - 392 ページ
...which we call Heroic, was either not known, or not always praftifed in Chaucer's age. It were an eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which...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... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1773 - 498 ページ
...every verfe, 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 nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 ページ
...which we call Heroic, was either not known, or not always pra&ifed in Chaucer's age. It were an eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which...infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Enn'ms, and in procefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 ページ
...matterlo produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which are lame for want of half a foot, and fometimea a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife....infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 ページ
...fbmetimes a whole one, and whichr no pronunciation can make otherwii'e. We can only fay, that he Jived 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 pro—... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 ページ
...which we call Heroic, was either not known, or not always practifed in Chaucer's age. It were an eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which...infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs... | |
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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... 
