| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 Seiten
...acquainted at their firft appearance, I have fince found altered and enlarged by fubfequent revifals, a? the author fuppofed his judgement to grow more exact:,...the foil. Liberty, when it firft appeared, I tried tq read, and foon defifted. I have never tried again, and therefore will not hazard either praife or... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 258 Seiten
...fubfequent revifals, as the author fuppofed his judgement to grow more exact, and as books or cohverfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpects. They...when it firft appeared, I tried to read, and foon defifled. I have never tried again, and therefore will not hazard either praife or cenfure. PROLOGUE... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 Seiten
...fubfequent revifals, as the author fuppofed his judgement to grow more exact, and as books or cqnverfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpects. They...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. •t • • • Liberty , when it firft appeared, I tried to read, and foon defifted. I have never... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 Seiten
...judgement to grow more exacV, and as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpefts. They are, I think, improved in general; yet I know...fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. Liberty, when it fait appeared, I tried to read, and foon defifted. I have never tried again, and therefore will not... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 244 Seiten
...judgement to grow more exact, and as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpe&s. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. Uf Liberty, when it firfl appeared, I tried to read, and loon defifted, I have never tried again, and... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 Seiten
...books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpefts. They are, I think, improved itr general ; yet I know not whether they have not loft...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil,' This criticifm is elegant, candid, and judicious ; the praife •bedewed is not (as praifes often are)... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 Seiten
...judgement to grow more exact, and as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpe&s. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet -I know...they have not loft part of what Temple calls their rage'; a word which, applied to wines, in its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. -Liberty,... | |
| John Young - 1783 - 124 Seiten
...And flattened ftate ; and the Stridures muft have loft, ofcourfe, " part of what Tem" pie would call their Race ; a word which, " applied to wines, in...primitive fenfe, means " the flavour of the foil," It was once intended to print the Criticifm in a manner refembling the editions of Feftus, which diftinguifh,... | |
| John Philips - 1791 - 214 Seiten
...Johnfon, fpeaking of Thomfon's Poems, after they were altered and enlarged by fubfequent revifals, fays, " They are, I think, improved " in general; yet I know...their race ; a word, which applied to wines, in its primi" live lenfe, means the flavor of the foil." The original and metaphorical meaning of the word... | |
| 1782 - 682 Seiten
...to grow more cxait, and as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpetfts. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. THE DEER and FAWN. AS Abel HafTan, who fo greatly diftinguilhed himfelf in the firft incurfions which... | |
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