 ... the province of 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...  The History of the Caliph Vathek - Page 265by William Beckford - 1883 - 405 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...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, as the...writers took possession of the most striking objects for descrip- t tion and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing tq those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...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, as the...the same, the first writers took possession of the striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 pages
...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, as the...for description, and the most probable occurrences forfiction, andleft nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...partly, perhaps, for the reason given by Dr. Johnson for the general superiority of the first poets : " the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and left nothing to those, that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 pages
...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, as the...for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed , but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 pages
...first poctiy of every nation surprized them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first: or whether, as the...nature and passion, which are always the same, the lirst writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of pi.etry is to describe nature and passion, which are always...and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 pages
...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, as the...and passion, •which are always the same, the first writer* took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - 194 pages
...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, as the...first writers took possession of the most striking object for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 pages
...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, as the...and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason,... | |
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