 | Jonathan Swift - 1812 - Страниц: 352
...knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things ; he is Heither required to mount elevations, nor to explore profundities;...on a level, along solid ground, without asperities, r. ithout obstruction. This easy and safe conveyance of meaning it was Swift's desire to attain, and... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - Страниц: 686
...understand him. The peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; and it will he sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things;...ground, without asperities, without obstruction." The general character of Swift has been excellently drawn by the learned and candid Granger, •with... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1814 - Страниц: 676
...understand him. The peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge; and it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things; he is neither required to'mount elevations, nor to explore profundities ; his passage is always on a level, along solid ground,... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1815 - Страниц: 582
...this author's composition, 1 have coincided with the opinion of a very able critic. ' This easy »nd safe conveyance of meaning, it was Swift's desire to attain, and for having attained, he certainty deserves praise, though perhaps not the highest praise. For purposes merely didactic, when... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - Страниц: 364
...understands him ; the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things...elevations, nor to explore profundities ; his passage is aFVOL. III. D ways on a level, along solid ground, without asperities, without obstruction. This easy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Страниц: 404
...understands him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things;...Swift's desire to attain, and for having attained lie deserves praise. For purposes merely didactic, when something is to be told that was not known... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Страниц: 406
...previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things; lie is neither required to mount elevations, nor to explore...having attained he deserves praise. For purposes merely didactick, when something is to be told that was not known before, it is the best mode ; but against... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Страниц: 412
...of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with comnSon words and common things; he is neither required to...profundities ; his passage is always on a level, along solid grdund> without asperities, without obstruction. This easy and safe conveyance of meaning it was Swift's... | |
 | Hugh Blair - 1820 - Страниц: 538
...judgment concerning this Author's composition, I have coincided with the opinion of a very able critic: " This easy and safe conveyance of meaning, it was "...Swift's desire to attain, and for having attained, he certainly " deserves praise, though, perhaps, not the highest praise. For ' purposes merely didactic,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - Страниц: 406
...understand him : the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge ; it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things;...having attained he deserves praise. For purposes merely didactick, when something is to be told that was not known before, it is the best mode ; but against... | |
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... him: the peruser of Swift wants little previous knowledge : it will be sufficient that he is acquainted with common words and common things ; he is neither required to mount elevations, nor to explore profundities; his passage is always on a level,... 
