 The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. - Página 130por Samuel Johnson - 1809Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 páginas
...none durst walk but he." "The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision," writes Dr. Johnson, "may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...of established fame and prescriptive veneration." * " Each change of many-colored life he drew. Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new." f Yet Dryden... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 páginas
...unrivaled stateliness, writes as follows : " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 432 páginas
...unrivaled stateliness, writes as follows : " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1902 - 346 páginas
...unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows:—' The poet of whose ' works I have undertaken the revision may now begin ' to assume the dignity of an ancient,...term ' commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.' The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 páginas
...undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has...opinions, have for many years been lost ; and every topick of merriment or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 páginas
...what is most considered is best understood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame H and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 páginas
...what is most considered is best understood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1905 - 494 páginas
...what is most considered is best understood. The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the teat of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs,... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - 1906 - 328 páginas
...what is most considered is best understood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 páginas
...what is most considered is best understood. The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...opinions, have for many years been lost ; and every topick of merriment, or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only... | |
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