 | 1759 - 422 pages
...the latter in elegance and refinement. I was deiirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was...volumes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca. Butlfoon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to tranfer... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...latter in elegance •and refinement. " I was defirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was able to VOL. I. F rerepeat by memory the volumes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca. But I foon found... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...latter in elegance and refinement. .**' I was defirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was...found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...latter in elegance and refinement. " I was defirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was...found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...latter in elegance and refinement. " I was defirous to add my name to tins illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the voKimes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca. But I foon found that no man was ever great by imitation.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 640 pages
...defign was not abfurd : his induftry was very commendable : he red all the poets of Arabia and Perfia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca : he then ranged mountains and defarts for images and refemblances, and pictured on his mind every... | |
 | John Hawkins - Authors, English - 1787 - 636 pages
...defign was not abfurd : his induftry was very commendable : he read all the poets of Arabia and Perfia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca : he then ranged mountains and dcfarts, for images and refemblances, and pictured on his mind every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...latter in elegance and refin?ment. " I was defirous to add my name to this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the voKimes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca. But I foon found that no man was ever great by imitation.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 642 pages
...defign was not abfurd : his induftry was very commendable: he red all the poets of Arabia and Perfia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are fufpended in the mofque of Mecca : he then ranged mountains and defarts for images and refemblances, and pictured on his mind every... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...latter in elegance and refinement. •• I was deIirous to add my name iu this illuftrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Perfia and Arabia, and was...memory the volumes that are fufpended in the mofque of of Mecca. But I foon found .that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled... | |
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I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious fraternity. I read all the poets of Persia and Arabia, and was able to repeat by memory the volumes that are suspended in the mosque of Mecca. 
