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;... The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, Esq: Containing All His Original ... - Sivu xxxii tekijä(t) John Dryden - 1767 - 368 sivua Koko teos -
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