 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 - Sivu xxvtekijä(t) John Bell - 1782Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 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 Ennius, and in procefs... | |
 | 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—... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 352 sivua
...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....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 aLucilius, and a Lucretius,... | |
 | 1793 - 806 sivua
...matter to produce fome thoufands of his vcrfcs, which are lame for want of half a foot, and fometimcs a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife....only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, mil that nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We muft be children before we grow men. There... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1795 - 322 sivua
..." want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which " no pronunciation can make oth e iwif We can only fay that ' " he lived in the infancy of...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... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 sivua
...to produce fome thoiifand.s of his verfes, wnich are lame for want of half a foot, and fometimcs a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife....fay, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and chat nothing is brought to perfection at the firft. We mud be children before we grow men. There was... | |
 | 1795 - 408 sivua
...lame for want of half, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife£f.We can only fay, that he lived in the infancy of our...poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the fit ft. We mult be children before we • gtowmen. There wasEnnius, and inprocefs ot lime a Lucillusand... | |
 | 1798 - 560 sivua
...eafy matter to produce fome thoufands of his verfes, which are lame for want of half and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife. We can only far, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the fini.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 658 sivua
...matter to produce feme thoufands of his verfes, which arc fame for want of half a foot, and fometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwife....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 a... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 674 sivua
...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... | |
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