 | Literature - 1826 - 450 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 at once; or that the firft poetry of company; attentive to the wants of every nation furprifed them as a norvery one ; and giving himfelf... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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,... | |
 | Jean Pons victor Lecoutz de Levizac (d.1) - 1834 - 494 pages
...countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best ; whether :i (it be that) every kind nf 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1846 - 194 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 - 1846 - 416 pages
...les meilleurs. Serait-ce que les autres arts exigent une longue suite d'efforts et de travaux , et 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... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1846 - 584 pages
...almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best ; whether (it be thai 3) every 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... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 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... | |
 | Jean Pons Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - 1850 - 566 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... | |
 | Education - 1852 - 478 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 surprized them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Thomas Carter - Devotional poetry - 1852 - 190 pages
...peculiarly favourable to the reception of divine illumination, he makes the following observations : — " 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... 
