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" Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish. "
Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets ... - Page 152
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

1796 - 692 pages
...words, and learned to adjuft their different founds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. ' Boflu is of opinion that the poet's firft work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illuftratc and eftablim. This feems to have been the procefs only of Milton ; the moral of other poems...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate arid establish. This seems to have been the process only of Milton : the moral of other...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...words, and learned to adjuft their different founds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Boflu is of opinion, that the poet's firft work is to find...incidental and confequent ; in Milton's only it is eflential and intfinfick. His purpofe was the moft. ufeful and the moft arduous ; to vindicate the...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 22

1802 - 684 pages
...all the varieties of metrical modulation. Boffii is of opinion that the poet's firft work is to lind a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illuftrate...incidental and confequent ; in Milton's only it is eflential and intrinfic. His puipofe was the moil ufeful and the mod arduous ; to vindicate the ways...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...words> and learned to adjuft their different founds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Boffu is of opinion, that the poet's firft work is to find...incidental and confequent ; in Milton's only it is eflential and intrinfick. His purpofe was the moft ufeful and the rnoft arduous ; to vindicate the...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish. This seems to have been the process only of Milton ; the moral of other poems...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Rossu is of opinion that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illoitrate and establish. This seems to have been the process only of Milton ; the moral of other poems...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 4

John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 pages
...words, and learned to adjuft their different founds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Boffu is of opinion that the poet's firft work is to find...incidental and confequent ; in Milton's only it is efiential and intrinfick. His purpofe was the moft ufeful and the moft arduous; to vindicate the ways...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...different sounds to all the Varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illus- • trate and establish. This seems to have been the process only of Milton ; the moral of other...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...different sounds to all the varieties of metrical modulation. Bossu is of opinion, that the poet's first work -is to find a moral, which his fable is afterwards to illustrate and establish. This seems to have been the process only of Milton ; the moral of other poems...
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