 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 sivua
...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 tune a Lucilius, and a lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 sivua
...lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the tirst. 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 ; even after Chaucer, there was... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 sivua
...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 ; even after Chaucer there was... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1891 - 728 sivua
...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 ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being ; and our numbers were in... | |
 | Hiram Corson - 1892 - 248 sivua
...Modern, translated into Verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccaccio, and Chaucer,' John Dryden says, ' 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 : even after Chaucer there was... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1894 - 462 sivua
...Dryden's monstrous chatter about the progress of English verse to the contrary notwithstanding : " 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; even after Chaucer there was... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 sivua
...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; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1896 - 346 sivua
...notwithstanding. ' We must be children,' he says, ' before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being; and our numbers were in their... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 sivua
...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; even after Chaucer there was... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 sivua
...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 ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington, a Fairfax, before Waller and Denham were in being : and our numbers were in... | |
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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;... 
