 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 páginas
...bad taste, or mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the...generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The originality of distortion ; and the false glare of unnatural combinations, is, indeed, a puerile... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must Jtuow many languages and many sciences j aud, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 484 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 250 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time; and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and con- . sider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time ; and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 462 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must kno\r many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1820 - 482 páginas
...(content himself with the slow progress of his name 43), contemn the applause of his oivn time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself a« presiding 44 over the thoughtsand manners of future generations, as a beiug superior to time and,... | |
 | William Driverger - 1820 - 648 páginas
...still aim at loftier distinctions. A poet must divest himself of the prejudices of his ago or country. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind. He must consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of successive generations. His... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages... | |
 | 1823
...therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...the thoughts and manners of future generations; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end: he'must know many languages and... | |
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He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place. 
