 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 - Page xxvby John Bell - 1782Full view - About this book
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 pages
...in France, in the Northern as well as the Southern provinces ; and in Italy, within the last fifty the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be years before Chaucer wrote, it had been cultivated with the greatest assiduity and... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...matter to produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which are lame for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife....infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfeöion at the firft. We mirft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 376 pages
...foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise f. 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... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 378 pages
...foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise f. 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 Bell - 1807 - 458 pages
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make oiherwise. 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 c 3 before we grow men. There was an Ennuis, and and in process of time... | |
 | John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 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, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 612 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 Ennins, apd in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 664 pages
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which nojironunciation 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 620 pages
...whole one, and which no pronnbciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he livt-d '. i!«- infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first We must be chil'¡••T btf .re we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a... | |
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