 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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 - 1895 - 256 pages
...that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be 15 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 252 pages
...are considered as the best; whether it be 15 that "every other kind ul knowledge tyair'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 - Ethiopia - 1898 - 228 pages
...ancient poets are considered I. •*, as the bes*is whether it be that every other kind of know- 1; ledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every 10 nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English satire and humor - 1909 - 204 pages
...considered as the best ; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition greatly attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised then* as a novelty, an.d retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - Philosophy - 1910 - 346 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 - English fiction - 1927 - 264 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 - English fiction - 1927 - 256 pages
...countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : V^whether it be that every other "JancT 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1927 - 258 pages
...most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind or know-; ledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as ai 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... 
