 Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that description and sentiment have been long exhausted.  the theatre. - Seite 73von clement scott - 1882Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 Seiten
...considered lawful. It has been said that " we are come into the world too late to produce any -thing new, that nature and life are pre-occupied, and that description and sentiment have been loug exhansted." The same anthority allows that " an inferior genins may, without any imputation of... | |
 | 1879 - 978 Seiten
...happen to society in so many other respects. Now, if it be true — that complaint of Labruyere — that "we are come into the world too late to produce...description and sentiment have been long exhausted " ; if it be true that literary labor, in times past, has spent itself in producing those wonderful... | |
 | Samuel Stillman Greene - 1874 - 336 Seiten
...which he had cut on the door of his gloomy cell, expressed the annual circuit of more than fifty suns. Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too...and that description and sentiment have been long since exhausted. We may rather suppose that Nature is unlimited in her operations, that she has inexhaustible... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 512 Seiten
...The following passages shew that the thought, or something like it, was not new to Johnson : — ' Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too...description and sentiment have been long exhausted.' The Rambler, No. 143. ' Some advantage the ancients might gain merely by priority, which put them in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 Seiten
...urged with probability. Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that...is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 Seiten
...total darkness, though with weak and borrowed lustre. Addison, though he has considered this poem 1 " Bruyere declares that we are come into the world too...and that description and sentiment have been long exhausted."—Rambler, No. 143. " The complaint that all topics are preoccupied is nothing more than... | |
 | Robert Kleuker - 1907 - 188 Seiten
...Srutyère an: Bruyere [sic] declares, that we are come into the world too late to produce any thing new, that nature and life are preoccupied, and that...description and sentiment have been long exhausted (R. 143, VII 14). ') Ш biefer ©telle eröffnet Sa S3rш)ère fein Äabitel „Des Ouvrages de l'Esprit":... | |
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