| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers ; the mafi of learning may be sometimes surprised and delighted...manners there will be 'an irreconcileable dissimilitude, andj the works will be generally uncouth and party coloured ; neither Original nor translated, neither... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...author to recent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers > the man of...learning may be sometimes surprised and delighted bv an unexpected parallel ; but the comparison requires knowledge of the original, which will likewise... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 536 Seiten
...of an old author to recent facts or familiar images; bnt what is easy is excellent; such imitation* cannot give pleasure to common readers; the man of...will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and party-coloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 Seiten
...author to recent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers ; the man of...will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and party-coloured; neither original nor translated, neither ancient... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 Seiten
...author to recent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers ; the man of...will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and party.coloured; neither original nor translated, neither ancient... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 Seiten
...of an old author to recent facts or familiar images; bnt what is easy is excellent; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers; the man of...Roman images and English manners, there will be an irreconcil< able dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and party-coloured; neither... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 Seiten
...author to recent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers ; the man of...Roman images and English manners, there will be an irreconcilable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and party coloured, neither original... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 Seiten
...author to re'cent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers: the man of...will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and partycoloured, neither original nor translated, neither ancient... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 Seiten
...author to recent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers : the man of...will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and partycoloured, neither original nor translated, neither ancient... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 Seiten
...author to recent facts or familiar images ; but what is easy is seldom excellent ; such imitations cannot give pleasure to common readers ; the man of...will be an irreconcileable dissimilitude, and the work will be generally uncouth and partycoloured ; neither original nor translated, neither ancient... | |
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