 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 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... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1875 - 380 páginas
...transcendental 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...future generations ; as a being superior to time and space." The reader, still subject to these limitations, is doubtless by this time ready to cry with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 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... | |
 | Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 226 páginas
...truths, which will always be the same ; he must therefore content himseli with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and...know many languages and many sciences ; and that his stylo may bo worthy of his thoughts, must by incessant practice familiarize to himself every delicacy... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 páginas
...transcendental truths which will always be the same he must content himself with the slow progress of bis name contemn the applause of his own time and commit his claims to the justice of posterity all these he must do if he wish to merit the title of great poet. The burgomaster raised his broad... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 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... | |
 | 1879 - 690 páginas
...thoroughly English critic, ' must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state . . . he must write as the interpreter of nature and the...of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over tho thoughts and manners of future generations.' ' The principal end of Painting,' says Dryden, ' is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 138 páginas
...the thoughts and manners of future 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 sty1 may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant practice, familiarise to himself every delicacy... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 456 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... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 446 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... | |
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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. 
