 | 1802 - 888 pages
...what assistance it was exe' cuted, and from what stores the ' materials were collected ; whe' ther its founder dug them from the ' quarries of Nature, or demolished ' other buildings to embellish hi* ' own.' I may venture to add that, in such inquiries, patience will be invigorated rather than... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1802 - 612 pages
...the simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed, and from what stores the materialswere collected ; whether its founder dug them from the quarries of Nature, or, demolished... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...the simplicity of the first plan ; " to find what was projected, whence the " scheme was taken, how it was improved, by " what assistance it was executed,...collected ; " whether its founder dug them from the quar" ries of nature^ or demolished other buildings " to embellish his own." These were the motives... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...the simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." 7 —Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...to the simplicity of the first plan ; to find what was projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface ; and are not these the... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...simpli. city of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme waj taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...were collected; whether its founder dug them from the quar. ries of Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his own'." I may venture to add that,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...the simplicity of its first plan; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...with the care and diligence that it deserves. Several critics have offered their conjectures; but none have much endeavoured to enforce or ascertain them.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...simplicity- of its first plan; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, hovf it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish hig own. This inquiry has been, indeed, not wholly neglected, nor, perhaps, prosecuted with the care... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 506 pages
...improved, by what as" sistance it was executed, and from what " stores the materials were collected j whether " its founder dug them from the quarries of...demolished other buildings to " embellish his own." These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface ; and are not these the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pages
...plan; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by \vbat assistance it was executed, and from what stores the...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." — Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
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... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected,... 
