 | 1874 - 812 Seiten
...contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write { Ǔ 6 U *2Y \ ! ө `i ( e! % y*7 B" 8*0H D" tW ...Gt N~ p eUs A \/ a Ǧ]<;j 8bk _5C Hu 0J VZ UdR \o =k" space." The reader, still subject to these limitations, is doubtless by this time ready to cry with... | |
 | 1907 - 506 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 labor is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences: and, that his style may... | |
 | Jacob Opper - 1973 - 234 Seiten
...general properties and large appearances ; he does not number the streaks of the tulip. He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...future generations, as a being superior to time and place.45 An even more revealing statement with respect to the primacy of sensory experience and its... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 Seiten
...themselves was by true patronage." The poet, said Imlac to Rasselas in Johnson's novel, "must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of...future generations, as a being superior to time and place."44 We are familiar with PB Shelley's similar claim,- yet he would go even further: "Poets are... | |
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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... 
