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The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by ... - Page 222
by English poets - 1790
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The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces

Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally practifed, the fitft teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...which it refrefh.es. To judge rightly of an author, we tnuft tranfport ourfelves to his time, tnd examine what were the wants of 4 h5s his contemporaries,...
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Dryden. Smith. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax. Parnell. Garth. Rowe. Addison ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...opinion which is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally pradlifed, the firft teacher is forgotten. Learning once made...; it has the appearance of fomething which we have bellowed upon ourfelves, as the dew appears to rife from the field which it refremes. To judge rightly...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 484 pages
...opinion which is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally pra&ifed, the firft teacher is forgotten. Learning once made...popular is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of fome thing which we have beftowed upon ourfelves, as the dew appears to rife from the field which it...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...univerfally practifed the teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is no longer learning j it has the appearance of fomething which we have beftowed...appears to rife from the field which it refrefhes. Johnfon's Life of Dryrfen. There is a fpecies of writers, who without much labour have attained high...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: With Critical ..., Volume 2

Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 456 pages
...evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally practifed, the firft teacher is for.r gotten. Learning once made popular is no longer learning; it has the appearance of fomething which we have bseftowed upori purfelves, as the de\v appears to rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...which is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art art univerfally practifed, the firft teacher is forgotten, Learning once made...; it has the appearance of fomething which we have bellowed upon ourfelves, as the dew appears to rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge .rightly...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...opinion which is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally practifed, the firft teacher is forgotten. Learning once made...as the dew appears to rife from the field which it refrefiies. To judge rightly of an author, we muft tranfport ourfelves to his time, and examine what...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: Dryden. Smith. Duke. King ...

Samuel Johnson - 1794 - 450 pages
...opinion which is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally practifed, the firft teacher is forgotten.;/ Learning once made...the field which it refrefhes. To judge rightly of the author, we muft Iranfport ourfelves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries,...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...which is no longer doubted, the evidence ceafes to be examined. Of an art univerfally practifed, the teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...; it has the appearance of fomething which we have befrowed upon ourfelves, as the dew appears to rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge rightly...
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The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden ..., Volume 1, Part 1

John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...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 no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it...
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