 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 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,...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." 1 These sentences, it will be noted, have the ring of apology. Why ? Because the pretensions of Pope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 páginas
...own only test. ' 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 disputed.'8 It has been already pointed out that the same test may be applied to Johnson himself, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 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,...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... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - 1918 - 986 páginas
...the Poets : " Surely no man could have read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author " ; " If the writer of the Iliad were to class his successors,...he would assign a very high place to his translator {ie, Pope), without requiring any other evidence of his genius." The critic who assigns a low place... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 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, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.2 BURKE'S CRITICISM. The criticism of Edmund Burke is limited -to one investigation, A 'Philosophical... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 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,...without requiring any other evidence of Genius." The eighth volume of this amusing work contains the Vol. 65 Lives of Swift, Gay, Broome, Pitt, Parnel,... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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,...translator, without requiring any other evidence of Genius." E*°- The eighth volume of this amusing work contains the Vol. 65 Lives of Swift, Gay, Broome, Pitt,... | |
 | 1927 - 658 páginas
...back 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. A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal... | |
 | Brian Hanley - 2001 - 308 páginas
...back 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,...translator, without requiring any other evidence of his genius. 50 Johnson's analysis of Pope's poetry is thus marked by a strongly apologetic character.... | |
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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;... 
