 | 1819 - 550 páginas
...best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry...of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 páginas
...best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition Gradually attained, and ppetfy is a Gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry...writers took possession of the most striking objects for descrip- t tion and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing tq those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 páginas
...best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once, or that the first poetry...the same, the first writers took possession of the striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry...of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences forfiction, andleft nothing to those that followed them, but transcription... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 páginas
...partly, perhaps, for the reason given by Dr. Johnson for the general superiority of the first poets : " the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and left nothing to those, that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 páginas
...best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry...of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 páginas
...: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry...of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed , but transcription... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 páginas
...whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is sfn acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry...of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 páginas
...: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry...of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 páginas
...attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poctiy of every nation surprized them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent...nature and passion, which are always the same, the lirst writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
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And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the... 
