 He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place.  Samuel Johnson - Page 179by Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 195 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause...generations — as a> being superior to time and place. His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may... | |
 | Charles Frederick Wingate - 1875 - 380 pages
...general and transcendental truths which will always be the same. He must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause...future generations ; as a being superior to time and space." The reader, still subject to these limitations, is doubtless by this time ready to cry with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause...generations; as a being superior to time and place. "His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences: and, that his style may... | |
 | Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 208 pages
...transcendental truths which will always be the same he must content himself with the slow progress of bis name contemn the applause of his own time and commit his claims to the justice of posterity all these he must do if he wish to merit the title of great poet. The burgomaster raised his broad... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same. He must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name, contemn the applause...generations ; as a being superior to time and place. 'His labour is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | 1879 - 690 pages
...thoroughly English critic, ' must consider right and wrong in their abstracted and invariable state . . . he must write as the interpreter of nature and the...of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over tho thoughts and manners of future generations.' ' The principal end of Painting,' says Dryden, ' is... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 454 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause...generations — as a being superior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 446 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause...generations — as a being superior to time and place. "His labour is not yet at an end: he must know many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 648 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labors are not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - 1885 - 612 pages
...general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labors are not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style... | |
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