 | John Dryden - 1713 - 614 sivua
...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 of Time a Luciliusy... | |
 | John Dryden - 1760 - 526 sivua
...for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one% and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our...that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilius, and... | |
 | New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 sivua
...want of half a foot, and " fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can " make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the " 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... | |
 | 1761 - 614 sivua
...want of half a foot, and *' fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can " make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the " 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 392 sivua
...for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the 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 of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 396 sivua
...for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived 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 procefs... | |
 | Joseph Towers - 1773 - 498 sivua
...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...that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilina and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 sivua
...for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our...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 of time a Lucilius, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 sivua
...for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwiie. We can only fay, that he lived 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 Enuius, and in prccefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 356 sivua
...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—... | |
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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... 
