 | 1774 - 622 pages
...free exertion of refearch with which fuch a hiftory ought to be executed, and not e'afily reconcilable with that complication, variety, and extent of materials,...to all others. My performance, in its prefent form, exhibit} Without tranfpofition the gradual improvements of our poetry, at the fame time that it uniformly... | |
 | Several Hands - 1774 - 642 pages
...coiifiderably enlarged, extended, and improved. . ' The method I have purfued, on one account at leafl, feems preferable to all others. My performance, in its prefent form, exhibits without tranfpofuion the gradual improvements of our poetry, ; .at the iàme time that it uniformly reprefents... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 332 pages
...exertion of refearch, with which fuch a " hiftory ought to be executed, and not eafily " reconcileable with that complication, variety, " and extent of materials,..." comprehend. " The method, I have purfued, on one ac" count at leaft, feems preferable to all others. " My performance, in its prefent form, exhi" bits... | |
 | Thomas Warton - Inscriptions - 1802 - 380 pages
...exertion of refearch, with which fuch a " hiftory ought to be executed, and not eafily " reconcileable with that complication, variety, " and extent of materials,..." comprehend. " The method, I have purfued, on one ac" count at leaft, feems preferable to all others. " My performance, in its prefent form, exhi" bits... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 524 pages
...which such a history ought to be executed, and not easily reconctleabl* * Disquisitions, p. 149, &e. with that complication, variety, and extent of materials,...which it ought to comprehend. " The method I have pursued, on one account at least, seems preferable to all others. My performance, in its present form,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English essays - 1810 - 532 pages
...which such a history ought to be executed, and not easily rcconcileable * Disquisitions, p. 149, &c. with that complication, variety, and extent of materials,...which it ought to comprehend. " The method I have pursued, on one account at least, seems preferable to all others. My performance, in its present form,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - Adventurer - 1810 - 528 pages
...which such a history oxight to be executed, and not easily reconcileablc * Disquisitions, p. 149, &c. with that complication, variety, and extent of materials,...which it ought to comprehend. " The method I have pursued, on one account at least, seems preferable to all others. My performance, in its present form,... | |
 | English poetry - 1811 - 1054 pages
...history ought to be exc" cuted, and not easily recouciie" able with that complication, \'з" riety, and extent of materials, " which it ought to comprehend. " The method I have pursued, on " one account at least, seems prc" Arable to all others. My pcr" tormance, in its present... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1871 - 362 pages
...free exertion of refearch with which fuch a hiftory ought to be executed, and not eaiily reconcileable with that complication, variety, and extent of materials...at the fame time that it uniformly reprefents the progreflion of our language. Some, perhaps, will be of opinion, that thefe annals ought to have commenced... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1871 - 360 pages
...free exertion of refearch with which fuch a hiftory ought to be executed, and not eafily reconcileable with that complication, variety, and extent of materials...tranfpofition the gradual improvements of our poetry, at the i fame time that it uniformly reprefents the progreflion of our language, j Some, perhaps, will be... | |
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The constraint, imposed by a mechanical attention to this distribution, appeared to me to destroy that free exertion of research, with which such a history ought to be executed, and not easily reconcileable * Disqiuiition*, p. 
