 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 - 27 페이지저자: Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 135 페이지전체보기 - 도서 정보
 | 1819 - 550 페이지
...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...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 - 1804 - 594 페이지
...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...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 페이지
...: 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 forfiction, andleft nothing to those that followed them,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 210 페이지
...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...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 - 1810 - 230 페이지
...: 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 - 1811 - 428 페이지
...whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is sfn 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, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 페이지
...: 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 - 1811 - 194 페이지
...attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poctiy of every nation surprized them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent...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 페이지
...: 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...accident at first : or whether, as the province of pi.etry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1815 - 272 페이지
...: 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...and passion, •which are always the same, the first writer* took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
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