 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 pages
...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 of time a Lucilius... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 114 pages
...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 of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 170 pages
...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 of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Dryden - English poetry - 1899 - 224 pages
...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. ****#*#** He must have been a man of a most wonderful... | |
 | Henry Charles Beeching - English essays - 1900 - 330 pages
...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 of time a Lucilius,... | |
 | John Walker - English language - 1904 - 814 pages
...half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only eay 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 the harmony... | |
 | JOHN MASEFIELD - 1907 - 550 pages
...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 of time a Lucullus,... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...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 of time a Lucilius... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - English literature - 1910 - 778 pages
...half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.f We can only say ead : Heroes j "\ 1910 Scott, Foresman and company"7 Newcomer Al first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius, and in process of time 1 Abraham... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - American literature - 1910 - 812 pages
...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. . . . Chaucer, I confess, is a rough diamond, and must first be polished, ere he shines. I deny... | |
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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... 
