 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...tained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firfl poetry of every nation furprifcd them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent...which are always the fame, the firft writers took poflcffion of the moft ftriking objects for defcription, and the moft probable occurrences for fiction,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred...as the province of poetry is to defcribe nature and paflion, which are always the fame, the firft writers took pofleflion of the moft ftriking objeils... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred...firft : or whether, •as the province of poetry is to deicribe Nature and Paffion, which are always the fame, the firft writers took poffeffion of the moft... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...WERE NOT DIVIDED." POETRY. IN almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation, surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...34*. POETS AND POETRY. In almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once, or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...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...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...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...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...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...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...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...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent •which... | |
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... 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 of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received... 
