 | William Caxton, Jean Calvin, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, John Knox, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, Henry Condell, John Heminge, Isaac Newton, John Dryden, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, William Wordsworth, Victor Hugo, Walt Whitman, Hippolyte Taine - 1910 - Počet stránok 634
...equality of numbers in every verse which we call heroic was either not known, or not always practic'd, in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some...verses, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometime^ a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say, that he liv'd... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1910 - Počet stránok 684
...— (a) Chaucer's Metre and Rhythm. " It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his versos, which are lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation cm make otherwise." Who wrote this, and who first proved the writer to have been in the wrong ? (6)... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer, Alice Ebba Andrews - 1910 - Počet stránok 778
...for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise.f rcle raise the dead : Heroes j "\ 1910 Sco nothing is brought to perfection at the first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an... | |
 | Agnes Kate Foxwell - 1911 - Počet stránok 180
...on the other with Boccaccio. Dryden explains in the same essay what is lacking in Chaucer's verse : "It were an easy matter to produce some thousands...one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise." (Fables, Essays, vol. ii, ed. WP Ker.) Wyatt had very serious intentions in versification when he turned... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1912 - Počet stránok 788
...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. . . . He must... | |
 | John Dryden - 1912 - Počet stránok 436
...call Hcroick, was either not known, or not f / always practis'd in Cliancer's Age. It were an easie / Matter to produce some thousands of his Verses, which...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... | |
 | 1912 - Počet stránok 396
...every verse which we call heroiek, was either not known or not always practised in Chaucer's age. . . . We can only say that he lived in the infancy of our poetry, and that nothing is brought to perfection at first. We must be children before we grow men. There was an Ennius,... | |
 | 1913 - Počet stránok 494
...Preface to the Fables, said that " it were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his [Chaucer's] verses which are lame for want of half a foot, and...one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise," he evidently generalized from that lack of knowledge which an alleged happier age has since made good.... | |
 | Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon - 1908 - Počet stránok 582
...we call Heroic?,; was either not known, or not always practis'd, in Chaucer's Age. It were an easie Matter to produce some thousands of his Verses, which...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... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - 1916 - Počet stránok 944
...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...lame for want of half a foot, and sometimes a whole [70 one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. We can only say that he lived in the infancy... | |
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... in Chaucer's age. It were an easy matter to produce some thousands of his verses which are lame for want of half a foot and sometimes a whole one, and which no pronunciation can make otherwise. 
