 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...  The Port Folio - Page 3021819Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the mod ancient poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as 1 a novelty, and retained the credit by con-' fent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the firft poetry of every nation, furprifcd them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other1 kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...the moll ancient port* arcconfideredasthebelt: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge it an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the fiift poetry of every nation furprifeci them ai a novelty, and retained the credit by conftnt which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...me with wonder, that, in almod all countries, the raoft ancient poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...poets are confidered as the beft : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...approaching to that which man would pay to the angelic nature. Ana yet it Mils me with wonder, that in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are...knowledge is an acquisition Gradually attained, and ppetfy is a Gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty;... | |
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