 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 ページ
...celebrate modernity and assert his own distance from the past: "We can only say, that [Chaucer] 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."5 This is Dryden in 1700 (the year of his death) voicing... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 ページ
...Dawning of our Language" (1451, line 262l. Or again, "We can only say, that he liv'd in the 1nfancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at the first. We must be Children before we grow Men" (1453, lines 347-50l. lf Chaucer is a poetic father... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 ページ
...sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say that he lived m 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 - 2002 - 612 ページ
...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 400 time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 ページ
...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,... | |
 | 62 ページ
...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,... | |
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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... 
