 | 1858 - 866 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...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them." Lockhart, the son-in-law of Walter Scott, in his biography of the poet and romance writer, gives an... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 páginas
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ue 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... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1884 - 538 páginas
...once memory and invention; and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polisR large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them." DISLIKE OF SWIFT. The extraordinary prejudice and dislike of Swift, manifested on all occasions by... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 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...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them." DISLIKE OF SWIFT. The extraordinary prejudice and dislike of Swift, manifested on all occasions by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...memciy 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... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 530 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...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them.' (Page 149.) Johnson's invectives against Scotland, in common conversation, were more in pleasantry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 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...have 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... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1900 - 398 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...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them" (Johnson's Works, viii., 321 ; see post, pp. 225, 245).] prudent, would feel, or affect to feel, with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 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...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them 5. It is related of Virgil that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning,... | |
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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... 
