 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...  Bell's Edition - Stran xxvavtor: John Bell - 1782Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Dryden - 1912 - 436 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. iThere was an Eiuiius, and in PREFACE TO FABLES 13 process... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - 874 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 Eunius, and in process of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 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 3D the first. We must be children before we grow men. . . . He must have been a man of a most wonderful... | |
 | Kevin Pask - 1996 - 238 strani
...immediately after Dryden considers the supposed imperfections of Chaucer's verse: 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,... | |
 | 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 before we grow... | |
 | 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 of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | 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 of his death) voicing... | |
 | Stephanie Trigg - 2002 - 312 strani
...lived "in the Dawning of our Language" (1451. line 262l. Or again, "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" (1453, lines 347-50l. If Chaucer is a poetic father... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 strani
...sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say that he lived m 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,... | |
 | Philip Smallwood - 2004 - 228 strani
...English language had only become adult during his own lifetime: We can only say, that ... [Chaucer] liv'd in the Infancy of our Poetry, and that nothing is brought to Perfection at first. We must be Children before we grow Men . . . even after Chaucer there was a Spenser, a Harrington,... | |
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