 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 páginas
...truths which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and...generations ; as a being superior to time and place. His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences ; — and that his style... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 páginas
...the same: he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...Generations; as a being superior to time and place. many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 páginas
...truths, which will always be the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and...commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must wiite as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 páginas
...the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...generations; as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end: he must know .many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 páginas
...truths, which will always be the same ; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name, contemn the applause of his own time, and...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labor is not yet at an end : he must know. many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 páginas
...truths, which will always be the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and...generations ; as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 páginas
...truths, which will always be the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and...generations ; as a being superior to time and place. "His labour is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 páginas
...therefore ' content himself with the slow progress of his -name, contejnn the applause of his own . ime, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity....interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and onsider himself aspre siding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 páginas
...therefore content himself with the slovr progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, aud commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...generations, as a being superior to time and place. ' His labour is not yet at an end ; he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 páginas
...bad taste, or mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the...generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The originality of distortion ; and the false glare of unnatural combinations, is, indeed, a puerile... | |
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He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. 
