 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...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 write...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future Generations; as a being superior to time and place. many languages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...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 over the thoughts and manners of future generations; as a being superior to time and place, " His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations; as a being superior to time and place. " His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...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 write...legislator of mankind, and consider .himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...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 write...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. " His... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...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 write...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. "His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...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. He musT write...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 pages
...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 must write...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. ' His labour... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...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...legislator of mankind ; and consider himself, as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The... | |
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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. 
