 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 436 páginas
...probability. Johnfon has obferved that there are different methods of composition. Virgil was ufed to pour out a great number of verfes in the morning, and pafs the day in retrenching the exuberances, and correctmg inaccuracies ; and it was Pope's cuftom to write his firft thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...once memory and invention, and, with Isttle intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was. to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...memory a.nd invention, and, with little intermediate use of the 'pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 páginas
...related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances, and correcting...inaccuracies. The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 páginas
...related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour o'it a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances, and correcting...inaccuracies. The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, d? corate,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 páginas
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1815 - 660 páginas
...and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued /neditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them." BISHOP PERCY. world tastes them. The author I can only guess at. There is but one man, I think, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 páginas
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 páginas
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances,... | |
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Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they... 
