| John Dryden - 1713 - 614 strani
...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 strani
...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...an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilius, and a Lqcretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer, a Harrington, a Fairfax,... | |
| 1761 - 614 strani
...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... | |
| New and general biographical dictionary - 1761 - 600 strani
...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... | |
| John Dryden - 1767 - 392 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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 poetry, and that...men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of time a Lucilina and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer, there was a Spenfer, a Harrington,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 352 strani
...a foot, and fometimea 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...we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in procefs of timeaLucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer there was a Spenfer,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 360 strani
...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...muft be children before we grow men. There was an Enn'ms, and in procefs of time a Lucilius, and a Lucretius, before Virgil and Horace ; even after Chaucer... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 strani
...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... | |
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