 | Christopher Cannon - 1998 - 468 strani
...the very difficulties that had to be excused in Chaucer's language ("we can only say, that he liv'd in the Infancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at the first") becomes the very ground for his subsequent importance ("We must be Children... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - 2001 - 378 strani
...Modern (1700) in which he absolves Chaucer from the disgrace of metrical irregularity: 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 Sitter - 2001 - 322 strani
...celebrate modernity and assert his own distance from the past: "We can only say, that [Chaucer] liv'd in the Infancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at the first. We must be Children before we grow Men."5 This is Dryden in 1700 (the year... | |
 | John Dryden - 2002 - 612 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... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1960 - 692 strani
...sometimes a whole one, and which no Pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he liv'd 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... | |
 | 62 strani
...sometimes a whole one, and which no Pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he liv'd 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... | |
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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... 
