 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 514 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...derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporaray opinions, have for many years been lost ; and every topick of merriment, or motive of sorrow,... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 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...Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusion, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topic of merriment,... | |
 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1821 - 248 páginas
...reputation, and certain immortality. Thus Johnson, in his Preface to Shakspeare, says of our great bard ; " He has long outlived his century, the term commonly " fixed as the test of literary merit" Page 5. On Lesbia's Absence. Some commentators have thought that this and the next poem conveyed a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 484 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...derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporaray opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment, or motive of sorrow,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 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...prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century2, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary * " Est vetus atque probus, centum qui perficit... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 350 páginas
...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...the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veBeration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 794 páginas
...been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood. The poet, y has a greater share in their disputes, than conscience;...impious discourses; and if their vanity be accompanied allusion, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many yeurs been lost ; and every topic of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 416 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...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of establishing fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit s . Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 500 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...and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived bis century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit'. Whatever advantages he might once... | |
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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... 
