...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 of the same images." See Samuel Johnson, Rasselas, 40. 48. Nicholas Rowe, The Tragedy of Jane Shore, 60. 49. According to...

...primitive poetry triumphs in naturalness but loses in polish: as Johnson's Imlac says in Rasselas, 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'. 98 Which of...

...Rasselas (1759) says: 'in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best . . . Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that...strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.'20 He might have instanced Blackwell among the observers. Imlac also asserts that 'No man...

...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 infant tongue."...

...followed them but transcription of the same events and new combination of the same images. \Yhatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early...invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement." A sentiment more appropriate and applicable to the writer whose life-work is so dear to the heart of...