 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 Seiten
...tained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firfl poetry of every nation furprifcd them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent...which are always the fame, the firft writers took poflcffion of the moft ftriking objects for defcription, and the moft probable occurrences for fiction,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 Seiten
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred...as the province of poetry is to defcribe nature and paflion, which are always the fame, the firft writers took pofleflion of the moft ftriking objeils... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 Seiten
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred...firft : or whether, •as the province of poetry is to deicribe Nature and Paffion, which are always the fame, the firft writers took poffeffion of the moft... | |
 | 1819 - 550 Seiten
...WERE NOT DIVIDED." POETRY. IN almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation, surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 Seiten
...34*. POETS AND POETRY. In almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once, or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 Seiten
...me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 Seiten
...fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 Seiten
...me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 Seiten
...me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 Seiten
...me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent •which... | |
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... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received... 
