 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 pages
...ourfelves ; and the act of compofition fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceflion of images; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great fource of pleafure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it, or contracted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...ourfelves; and the act of compofition fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great fource of pleafure. PerD 2 haps haps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 478 pages
...the great fource of pleafure. PerD 2 haps haps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it, or contracted his work /till his ebullitions of invention had fubfided. If he fhould controul his defire of immediate renown, and keep his work nine years unpublifhed,... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...and the a£t <pf competition fills and delights the mind with change of language and fuccefijon ef images; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great fpurqe ef pleafure. Perhaps no man ever thought a Ijne fuperfluous when he firft wrote it, .or contra<3:ed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...the great fource of pleafurei PerD 2 haps haps no man ever thought a line fuperfluoua when he firft wrote it, or contracted his work till his ebullitions of invention had fubfided. If he fhould controul his defire of immediate renown, and keep his work nine years unpublifhed,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...ourfelves; and the a£t of compofition fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great fource of pleafure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it, or contracted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 424 pages
...ourfelves ; and the act of compofition fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great fource of pleafure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it, or contracted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 536 pages
...ourfelves ; and the act of compofition fills and delights the mind with change of language and fucceffion of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great fource of pleafure. Perhaps no man ever thought a line fuperfluous when he firft wrote it, or contracted... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...nrthor is Unstable to disifnver. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and tli? act of composition fi'U and de-lights the mind with change of language and succession of images; cv'"vv couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps no man ever... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 520 pages
...author is least ahle to discover. We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and...he first wrote it, or contracted his work till his ehullitions of invention had suhsided. And even if he should controul his desire of immediate renown,... | |
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We are seldom tiresome to ourselves ; and the act of composition fills and delights the mind with change of language and succession of images ; every couplet when produced is new, and novelty is the great source of pleasure. Perhaps no man ever thought... 
