 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1864 - 202 strani
...half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 strani
...a foot, and sometimes a- whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 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... | |
 | John Walker - 1865 - 800 strani
...half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at first." It is difficult, from the very abundance, to select a passage that might prove... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 strani
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.* 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 strani
...sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he ,ived 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... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 strani
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1897 - 764 strani
...criticism, and, in judging Chaucer's metres, has not considered changes of pronunciation. , We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the first. \Ve must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 strani
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 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... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 strani
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he 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... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1885 - 534 strani
...a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at the his works miswritten, or his vearse mismeasured, may appeare in the end of his fift... | |
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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... 
