 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 páginas
...upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated,...were to class his successors, he would assign a very 10 high place to his translator, without requiring any other evidence of Genius. The following letter,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 páginas
...back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let extensive. •• I am, Sir, your most obedient humble...servant, "R. JAMES." " TO DR BIRCH. " Thursday, Sept. I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 546 páginas
...upon the past ; let [us] enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated,...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand Cor. et Ad. — Line 28: For " apotheosis... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 726 páginas
...upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated,...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.' I remember once to have heard Johnson say, ' Sir, a thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined and their claims stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed5. Had he 1 ' If you read his translation of fication equal to that of Pope." ' Homer's Iliad... | |
 | David Watson Rannie - 1907 - 422 páginas
...upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry ; let their productions be examined and their claims stated...disputed. Had he given the world only his version [of Homer] the name of poet must have been allowed him." Wordsworth's view of Pope was very different.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 650 páginas
...otherwise perfectly just and most masterly vindication of Pope to a very lame and impotent conclusion. ' If the writer of the Iliad were to class his successors,...translator without requiring any other evidence of his genius.' And yet there are no mismeasurements in his appreciation of particular poems, and in his... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1908 - 638 páginas
...otherwise perfectly just and most masterly vindication of Pope to a very lame and impotent conclusion. ' If the writer of the Iliad were to class his successors,...translator without requiring any other evidence of his genius.' And yet there are no mismeasurements in his appreciation of particular poems, and in his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 páginas
...back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated,...translator, without requiring any other evidence of genius. DAVID HUME ESSAY ON THE STANDARD OF TASTE 1757 [This essay was first published in a volume called Four... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 páginas
...back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry; let their productions be examined, and their claims stated,...translator, without requiring any other evidence of genius. DAVID HUME ESSAY ON THE STANDARD OF TASTE 1757 [This essay was first published in a volume called Four... | |
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... the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath of poetry;... 
