 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art. . 305 BIOGRAPHICAL.—FOR THE PORT FOLIO. JOHN qUINCY ADAMS. , ABOUT the year 1630, a man by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...left nothing tq those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same Images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first e^ce) in strength ft^d invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...to those that followed them but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations of the saoie images : whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed, that the early writers are in possession of iMlure, and their followers of art. ft inc« of Abyflinia, p. 64 & 65. Compositions, merely pretty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations pf the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in Strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature* and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...and left nothing to those that followed , but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement..... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers followers of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...observed, that the early writers are in possession of nuturc, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter... | |
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Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature and their followers of art; that the first excel in strength and invention and the latter in elegance and refinement. 
