 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of...himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony.' CHAPTER XL IMLAC'S NARRATIVE CONTINUED. A HINT ON PILGRIMAGE. IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 136 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his sty1 may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant practice, familiarise to himself every delicacy... | |
 | 1880 - 556 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...generations, as a being superior to time and place. "His labours are not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences ; and that his style may... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 452 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony." CHAPTER XL IMLACS NARRATIVE CONTINUED. 'A HINT ON PILGRIMAGE. IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1883 - 168 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony.' CHAPTER XI. IMLAC'S NARRATIVE CONTINUED. A HINT ON PILGRIMAGE. IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit,... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony." CHAPTER XI. IMLACS NARRATIVE CONTINUED. A HINT ON . PILGRIMAGE. IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labors are not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labors are not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...claims to the justice of posterity. He must write the^interpretex-of^nature, and the legislator of and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts...himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony.' CHAPTER XI. IMLAC'S NARRATIVE CONTINUED. A HINT ON PILGRIMAGE. IMLAC now felt the enthusiastic fit,... | |
 | Arthur Octavius Prickard - 1891 - 196 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claim to the justice of posterity. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of...himself every delicacy of speech and grace of harmony.' " Imlac now felt the enthusiastic fit, and was proceeding to aggrandise his own profession, when the... | |
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... transcendental truths, which will always be the same. He must 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 must write as the interpreter of... 
