 Why this wild strain of imagination found reception so long in polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that 'while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it ; for when a man had by practice gained...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 15by Samuel Johnson - 1818Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 524 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 462 pages
...conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to cpntinue it ; for when a man had by practice gained some fluency...task of our present writers is very different ; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books., that experience which can... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1817 - 374 pages
...hermit and a wood, a battle and a shipwreck. Why this wild strain of imagination found recepr c3 tion so long, in polite and learned ages, it is not easy...task of our present writers is very different ; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 472 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...task of our present writers is very different ; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...task of our present writers is very different ; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 468 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...mind with incredibilities ; a book was thus produced wit In nit fear of criticism, without the toil of study, without knowledge of nature, or acquaintance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it;...to retire to his closet, let loose his invention, arrd heat_his mind with incredibilities; a book was thus produced without fear of criticism, without... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 470 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it...task of our present writers is very different ; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 748 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; but we cannot wonder, that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it;...task of our present writers is very different; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 476 pages
...polite and learned ages, it is not easy to conceive ; butwe cannot wonder that while readers could be procured, the authors were willing to continue it;...task of our present writers is very different ; it requires, together with that learning which is to be gained from books, that experience which can never... | |
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