 And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in 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, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the...  Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - Page 27by Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pages
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province ot poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those who followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...: 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 first poetry...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...; 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 first poetry...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing for those that followed... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 452 pages
...best; 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 first poetry...novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which is received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion,... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...best; 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 first poetry...novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which is received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 pages
...best: 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 first poetry of every 10 nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 pages
...: 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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a 10 novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first ; or whether,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...: 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 first poetry...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...: 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 first poetry...writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 256 pages
...whether it be 15 that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry...which it received by accident at first; or whether the 20 province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, and the first... | |
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