 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 278 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 - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it ba that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition...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... | |
 | 1823
...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... | |
 | Laurence Sterne - 1823 - 762 pages
...me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best ; the towns, a first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1823 - 768 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 - 1825 - 508 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 - 1825 - 728 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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 - 1825 - 514 pages
...with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whethet it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition...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... | |
 | Benjamin Humphrey Smart - Elocution - 1826 - 242 pages
...if we dissect and look into his heart, we shall see how vain, how weak, how empty a thing it is. 5. 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 as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received... | |
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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... 
