| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - Počet stránok 800
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 4 We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - Počet stránok 786
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, which arc lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.4... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - Počet stránok 780
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.4 We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought... | |
| John Dryden - 1859 - Počet stránok 480
...equality of numhers in every verse which we call Heroic was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is hrought to perfection at the first. We must he children hefore we grow men. There was an... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - Počet stránok 780
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.4 We can only say, that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1859 - Počet stránok 612
...equality of numbers in every verse, which we call heroic, was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame fur want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.... | |
| Robert Demaus - 1860 - Počet stránok 580
...equality of numbers in every verse, which we call heroic, was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...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... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - Počet stránok 874
...not known, or not always practised, in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousand of his verses, which are lame for want of half a foot,...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... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - Počet stránok 384
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call Heroic, was either not known, or not always practised in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciaton can make otherwise.' This peremptory decision has never since, that I know, been controverted,... | |
| Geoffrey Chaucer - 1860 - Počet stránok 598
...of numbers in every verse which we call Ilcroiclt. was either not known, or not 4'waT* practised, in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses, which are Ininc fir want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise."... | |
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