 | Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1819 - 550 pages
...or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed, that the early writers are in possession of nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the striking objects for description, and the most probable...fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations of the saoie images : whatever be the reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...striking objects for descrip- t tion and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing tq those that followed them, but transcription of the...same events, and new combinations of the same Images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...for description, and the most probable occurrences forfiction, andleft nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1808 - 710 pages
...partly, perhaps, for the reason given by Dr. Johnson for the general superiority of the first poets : " the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and left nothing to those, that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...or whether, as the pro.vince of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature*... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 458 pages
...or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed , but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking...same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature,... | |
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Passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and... 
