 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow...thoughts and manners of future generations — as a> being superior to time and place. His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1875 - 380 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths which will always be the same. He must therefore content himself with the slow progress...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and space." The reader, still subject to these limitations, is doubtless by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress...the thoughts and manners of future generations; as a being superior to time and place. "His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 páginas
...transcendental truths which will always be the same he must content himself with the slow progress of bis name contemn the applause of his own time and commit his claims to the justice of posterity all these he must do if he wish to merit the title of great poet. The burgomaster raised his broad... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1879 - 216 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress...the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labours are not yet at an end ; he must know many languages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same. He must therefore content himself with the slow progress...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. 'His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and... | |
 | 1879 - 690 páginas
...thoroughly English critic, ' must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state . . . he must write as the interpreter of nature and the...of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over tho thoughts and manners of future generations.' ' The principal end of Painting,' says Dryden, ' is... | |
 | 1880 - 556 páginas
...laws and opinions ; and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress...the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. "His labours are not yet at an end; he must know many languages... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 456 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow...thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 452 páginas
...present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow...thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
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... he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider... 
