 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...1777, as given by Mr. Nichol Smith in his Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare.] . . . THE poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...1777, as given by Mr. Nichol Smith in his Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare.} . . . THE poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1915 - 328 páginas
...entertaining as it is neglected, Doctor Johnson says in his finest manner: "The poet of whose work I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." I have often thought that if the period of time fixed by Doctor Johnson as the test of literary merit... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1917 - 746 páginas
...of the 'reverence' as due to the classics. In the same place (p. vii) he says of Shakespeare that he "may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...of established fame and prescriptive veneration." To confer on a man the rank of the classic is thus more than a purely critical act, for 'reverence'... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 678 páginas
...Cf. 0. 3. 30. 1-2. 3. Miscellaneous Prose Writings. Preface to Shakespeare. (5. 104-105) The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. The editor of the Oxford edition of the Works notes the implicit allusion here to E. 2. 1. 39. (5.... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 662 páginas
...3. Miscellaneous Prose Writings. Preface to Shakespeare. Cf. 0. 3. 30. 1-2. (5. 104-105) The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit. The editor of the Oxford edition of the Works notes the implicit allusion here to E. 2. 1. 89. (5.... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - 1923 - 430 páginas
...itself. In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows : " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...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 - 1923 - 430 páginas
...itself. In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows: " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1924 - 562 páginas
...italic of ancient shows, I think, that Boswell is thinking of the Preface to Shakespeare — ' The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient.' 1. 29 no other memorial. It is strange that Boswell here ignores his own greater enterprise, which... | |
 | 1909 - 498 páginas
...been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood. The Poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration, t He has long outlived his century, the term com- ; monly fixea as the test of literary merit. Whatever... | |
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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... 
