 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - 400 pagina’s
...all men of genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them." Letter to Pope, 2o Sept., 1723 (Correspondence, ed. Ball, 111.175). bodies which constitute the universe,... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 pagina’s
...among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done, they are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the world before them" (The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift, ed. Harold Williams [Oxford, 1963-65], II, 465). 3. Irvin Ehrenpreis's... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 pagina’s
...among all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four Cotemporaries and if they could be united would drive the World before them" (20 Sept. 1723, 2.465). This passage, sometimes thought affirmatively cheerful, comes in fact from... | |
 | Eve Tavor Bannet, Professor Eve Tavor Bannet - 2005 - 9 pagina’s
...all Men of Genius, and would fain have done it: they are seldom above three or four Contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the World before them. I think it was so among the Poets in the Time of Augustus; but Envy and Party, and Pride, have hindered it among us.... | |
 | Pat Rogers - 2007
...all Men of Genius, and would fain have it done. They are seldom above three or four Contemporaries and, if they could be united, would drive the world before them. (Con, n, p. 199) For Pope the desire to establish around himself a circle of virtuous men, to correspond... | |
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I have often endeavoured to establish a friendship among all men of genius, and would fain have it done : they are seldom above three or four contemporaries, and if they could be united, would drive the world before them. 
