 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pagina’s
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an authour, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pagina’s
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...means of supplying; them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pagina’s
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying ilirin. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his science,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is.... To judge rightly of an author, we must transport oarselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pagina’s
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...as the dew appears to rise from the field which it 1 refreshes. (. us -ev \-- i • I To judge rightly of an author, we must transport our"^y selves to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pagina’s
...evidence ceases to be examined. . Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is fprgotten. Learning once made popular is no longer learning ;...as the dew appears to rise from the field which it j refreshes. To judge rightly of an an thorn-, we must transport our- * selves to his time, and examine... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pagina’s
...matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. — Selden. L. Learning once made popular is no longer learning;...appears to rise from the field which it refreshes. — Johnson. LL Mankind may be divided into the merry and the serious, who, both of them, make a very... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 718 pagina’s
...be unable to bear such a test. " To judge rightly of an author," observes the last great writer, " we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time, was difficult at another."* If De Foe was inferior to some of his contemporaries, it is sufficient... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1830 - 716 pagina’s
...author," observes the last great writer, '• we must transport VIEW OF HIS CHARACTER AS A WRITER. 627 ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants...means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time, was difficult at another."* If De Foe was inferior to some of his contemporaries, it is sufficient... | |
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To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. 
