 | 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...possession of nature, and their followers of art. . 305 BIOGRAPHICAL.—FOR THE PORT FOLIO. JOHN qUINCY ADAMS. , ABOUT the year 1630, a man by the name... | |
 | 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...nature, and their followers of art: that the first e^ce) in strength ft^d invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement. " J was desirous to $dd... | |
 | 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, 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 - 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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...left nothing to those that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...early writers are in possession of nature, and their follower* of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...left nothing to those lhat followed them, but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is...in possession of nature, and their followers of art : lhat the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement. " I was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 484 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 commonly observed that the early writers ters are in possession of nature, and their followers of art : that the first excel in strength and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 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...and their followers of art: that the first excel in itrength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement. "' I was desirous to add my name... | |
 | Jean-Pons-Victor Lecoutz de Levizac - French language - 1820 - 482 pages
...followed them, but transcription 8 of the same events, and new combinations 9 of the same images. Wbatever be the reason, it is commonly observed, that the early writers are in possession ot nature, and their followers 10 of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the... | |
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... 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 them but transcription... 
