 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Страниц: 194
...poets arc considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knov, ledge is an acquisition gradually 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 which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - Страниц: 250
...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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent •which... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - Страниц: 310
...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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Страниц: 250
...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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit, by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Страниц: 484
...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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1817 - Страниц: 194
...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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit, by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - Страниц: 420
...poets are considered as the best : whether it he 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 novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1819 - Страниц: 448
...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 first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - Страниц: 278
...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 first poetry of every nation, surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Страниц: 466
...poets are considered as the best : whether it ba 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 novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
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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... 
