 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...almoft all 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 - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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
...all 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... | |
 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained,...by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
