 ... 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 - 1886 - Liczba stron: 180
...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 hatter in elegance and refinement. "I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - Liczba stron: 260
...combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed observed that thei early writers are in possession of nature, and their...the first excel in strength and invention, and the latterin elegance and refinement^ " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - Liczba stron: 268
...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...images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art : that the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1927 - Liczba stron: 258
...commonly observed observed that the early writers are in of nature, and their followers of art : thatjhe first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinejpprif. " I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - Liczba stron: 420
...productions — the Iliad, for example — are in certain respects without a peer. Dr. Johnson has Imlac say, 'It is commonly observed that the early writers are...invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.' 1* The theorists we now single out as aesthetic primitivists departed from this quite orthodox neo-classic... | |
 | Walter Jackson Bate - 2009 - Liczba stron: 784
...writers took possession of the most striking objects . . . and the most probable occurrences . . . Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that...possession of Nature, and their followers of art" — that "strength and invention" seem more common in the former, and various kinds of "refinement" in the latter.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - Liczba stron: 860
...stylised neoclassic diction, would have agreed theoretically. Cf the remark in Rasselas (1759) ch 10: "Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that...strength and invention, and the latter in elegance i;iograpma lam-ana. i COLERIDGE 1 . Note by Coleridge to his son Derwent inscribed on the half-title... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - Liczba stron: 356
...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.'" In the second half of the eighteenth century, a work appeared that significantly contributed to the... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - Liczba stron: 488
...force while it gained in sophistication. As Johnson's character Imlac suggested in Rasselas ( 1 759), the "early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: . . . the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement." A balance... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - Liczba stron: 412
...published in 1795-96. The argument was a familiar one. As early as 1759 Johnson's Imlac was asserting, "It is commonly observed that the early writers are...strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement."47 The tension between invention and judgment settled in the disputes we followed in the... | |
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