 And yet it 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 an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Strona 27autor: Samuel Johnson - 1804 - Liczba stron: 135Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1819 - Liczba stron: 550
...best. 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...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - Liczba stron: 594
...best. 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...the same, the first writers took possession of the striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - Liczba stron: 376
...: 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...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences forfiction, andleft nothing to those that followed them,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - Liczba stron: 210
...best: 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...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 230
...: 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...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Liczba stron: 428
...whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is sfn acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - Liczba stron: 250
...: 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...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Liczba stron: 194
...attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poctiy of every nation surprized them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent...nature and passion, which are always the same, the lirst writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Liczba stron: 310
...: 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...accident at first : or whether, as the province of pi.etry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - Liczba stron: 272
...: 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...and passion, •which are always the same, the first writer* took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
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