 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...countries, the mod ancient poets are confidered as the beft : 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 firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as 1 a novelty, and retained the credit by con-' fent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 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 every nation, furprifcd them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 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 every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other1 kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...the moll ancient port* arcconfideredasthebelt: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge it an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the fiift poetry of every nation furprifeci them ai a novelty, and retained the credit by conftnt which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 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 every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...countries, the raoft ancient poets are confidered as the beft : 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 firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 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 every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 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 every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...the most ancient poets arc considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knov, ledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poctiy of every nation surprized them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received... | |
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... 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 by accident at first; or whether, as... 
