 | John Dryden - 1713 - Liczba stron: 614
...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 - Liczba stron: 526
...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 - Liczba stron: 600
...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 - Liczba stron: 614
...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 - Liczba stron: 392
...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 - Liczba stron: 396
...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 - Liczba stron: 498
...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 - Liczba stron: 360
...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 - Liczba stron: 364
...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 - Liczba stron: 356
...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... 
