 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first: or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, Which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for descrip- t tion and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences forfiction, andleft... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the pro.vince of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...retained the credit by consent •which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...retained the credit by consent •which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which...always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first: or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the lirst writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of pi.etry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left... | |
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... the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... 
