 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...find anything that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 pages
...his work. "To adjust the minute events of literary history is," he tells us in hi&lLife of Dryden,' " tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries whichTtiere is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... | |
 | 1855 - 550 pages
...There is a passage in Johnson's Life of Dryden highly applicable to his present Editor's industry : " To adjust the minute events of literary history is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...find any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphiets not... | |
 | William Dougal Christie - 1871 - 512 pages
...To adjust the minute events of literary history," said Dr. Johnson in his " Lives of the Poets," 1 " is tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...find anything that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history is...enquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand. The 'Rehearsal' was played in 1671,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...any thing that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. 10 To adjust the minute events of literary history, is...enquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not always at hand. The " Rehearsal" was played in 1671,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...find anything that might not have been written without so long delay, or a confederacy so numerous. To adjust the minute events of literary history is...great force of understanding, but often depends upon inquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pages
...accounts for many inaccuracies. Doubtless many sympathise with his words in the ' Life of Dryden,' "to adjust the minute events of literary history is tedious and troublesome," and from this point of view do not look for l absolute accuracy in dates or genealogy or even quotation... | |
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To adjust the minute events of literary history, is tedious and troublesome ; it requires indeed no great force of understanding, but often depends upon enquiries which there is no opportunity of making, or is to be fetched from books and pamphlets not... 
