 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable toloTow how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...the knowledge has very rarely been attainable ; but happily there remains the original copy of the " Iliad," which, being obtained by Bolingbroke as a... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 pages
...to impatience ; he never passed a fault un» corrected by indifference, nor quitted it by despair. He laboured his works, first to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it," LIVES OF THE POETS, iv. 163. In consequence of being acquainted with a great variety of persons, he... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...the. knowledge has very rarely been attainable ; but happily there remains the original copy of the " Iliad," which, being obtained by Bolingliroke as a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 372 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...to himself. " He laboured his works first to gain rejnatation, and afterwards to keep it." " He was * JOUICSON'! Life of MILTON. not content to satisfy... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 376 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has present case, the discovery having once been made, it requires only the trouble of collation. What... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...the knowledge has very rarely been attainable ; but happily there remains the origigal copy of the " Iliad," which, being obtained by Bolingbroke as a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...the knowledge has very rarely been attainable ; but happily there remains the origigal copy of the " Iliad," which, being obtained by Bolingbroke as a... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it mnst be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced...the knowledge has very rarely been attainable ; but happily there remains the original copy of the " Iliad," which, being obtained by Bolingbroke as a... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 pages
...difficulty of this great work, it must lie very desirable to know how it was pei formed, and by \vhat gradations it advanced to correctness. Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarelv been attainable: but happily tin. re ivmuin- the original copy oi the Iliad. vhich, being obtained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 pages
...wearied to impatience; he never passed a fault unamended by indifference, nor quitted it by despair. He laboured his works first to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of composit'on there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with Isttle... | |
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To those who have skill to estimate the excellence and difficulty of this great work, it must be very desirable to know how it was performed, and by what gradations it advanced to correctness. Of such an intellectual process the knowledge has very rarely... 
