 ... as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale - Strona 51autor: Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 184Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - Liczba stron: 128
...description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations...first excel in strength and invention, and the latter elegance and refinement. 1 was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1844 - Liczba stron: 496
...commonly observed that tli« early writers are in possession of nature, and their '"followers of it; that the first excel in strength and invention, and...to add my name to this illustrious ' 'fraternity. I "*" all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - Liczba stron: 184
...description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations...strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refine•icnt. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1846 - Liczba stron: 584
...nothing to those that followed them, but transcription 8 of the same events, and new combinations 9 of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...observed, that the early writers are in possession of natrue, and 'their followers 10 of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter... | |
 | Esq. J. H. JAMES (of London.) - 1847 - Liczba stron: 184
...die for it. Whatever be the consequence of my experiment, I am resolved to judge with mine own eyes. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed, that...possession of nature, and their followers of art. Whoever reads a perfect or finished composition, whatever be the language, whatever (be) the subject,... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1852 - Liczba stron: 348
...description and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them but transcription of the same events, and new combinations...invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement." 1. "In earliest Greece, to thee, with partial choice, The grief-ful muse addrest her iufant tongue."... | |
 | 1852 - Liczba stron: 478
...description and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them but transcription of the same events, and new combinations...the first excel in strength and invention, and the Utter in elegance and refinement." 1. " In earliest Greece, to thee, with partial choice, The grief-ful... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - Liczba stron: 380
...description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations...: that the first excel in strength and invention, the latter in elegance and refinement. [St John's College Voluntary Classical, 1838.] 52. SINGULAR... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1852 - Liczba stron: 190
...description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them but transcription of the same events, and new combinations...followers, of Art : that the first excel in strength, and the latter in elegance and refinement" With these conjectures the good and learned Doctor dismisses... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1856 - Liczba stron: 118
...the same events, and new combinations or the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonljl _ observed that the early writers are in possession...invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement. * * ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impei.eo me to transfer my attention to nature... | |
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