 When the excellence of a new composition can no longer be contested, and malice is compelled to give way to the unanimity of applause, there is yet this one expedient to be tried, by which the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced ; and...  The Rambler, by S. Johnson - Page 2451806Full view - About this book
 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - 1763 - 362 pages
...although this hypothefis is perhaps puftied a little too far. The author feems to think with La Bruyere, that we are come into the world too late to produce any new thing and original ; but his own performance is an admirable example to the contrary. VIII. The... | |
 | Virgil - 1778 - 440 pages
...although this hypothefis is perhaps pufhed a little too far. The author feems to think with La Bruyere, that we are come into the world too late to produce any new thing and original ; but his own performance is an admirable example to the contrary. VIII. The... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1785 - 206 pages
...his hearers ; he awakens them j he excites them to action ; he fhcws them their impending danger *. Bruyere declares, that we are come into the world...to produce any thing new ; that nature and life are pre-occupied ; and that defcription and fcntiment have been long fince exhaufted f. We may rather fuppofe,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...fainter lull re. This accufation is dangerous, becaufe, even when it is falfe, it may be fometimes urged with probability. Bruyere declares, that we...to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and fentiment have been long exhaufted. It is indeed certain, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...our fainter luftre. This accufation is dangerous, becaufe, even when it is falfe, it may be fometimes urged with probability. Bruyere declares, that we...to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that defcription and fentiment have been long exhaufted. It is indeed certain, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...our fainter luftre. This accufation is dangerous, becaufe, even when it is falfe, it may be fometimes urged with probability. Bruyere declares, that we...to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that defcripdon and fentiment have been long exhaufted. It is indeed certain, that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...accufationisdangerous, becaufe, even when it is falfe, it may be fometimes urged with probability. Brnyere declares, that we are come into the world too late...to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that defcription and fentiment have been long exhaulted . It is indeed certain, that... | |
 | 1801 - 344 pages
...our fainter luftre. This accufation is dangerous, becaufe, even when it is falfe, it may be fometimes urged with probability. Bruyere declares, that we...to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that defcription and fentiment have been long exhaufted. It is indeed certain, that... | |
 | 1813 - 706 pages
...expedient to be tried, the charge of plagiarism. By this the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced, and the excellence which we cannot obscure,...distance as not to overpower our fainter lustre." — Ram. N°. 143. A regard for truth, and the memory of a distinguished scholar, has induced this... | |
 | 700 pages
...expedient to be tried, the (harge of plagiarism. By this the author may be degraded, though his work be reverenced, and the excellence which we cannot obscure,...distance as not to overpower our fainter lustre." — Ram. N°. 143. A regard for truth, and the memory of a distinguished scholar, has induced this... | |
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