 ... and invariable state ; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same. He must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name, contemn the applause of his own...  Rasselas: A Tale - Seite 30von Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 203 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 Seiten
...confider himfelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciencesj and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, mutt,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 318 Seiten
...confider himfelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciences; and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, muft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 Seiten
...confider himfelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperier to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciences ; and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, muft,... | |
 | 1797 - 522 Seiten
...confider himfelf as preliJing over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he milt know many languages and many Iciences; and, that his ilvlc may be worthy of his thoughts, mull,... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 Seiten
...confider himfelf as prefaling over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he mult know many languages and many iciences ; anc!, that his Ityle may be worthy of his thoughts, mull,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 462 Seiten
...confider himlelf as prefiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being fuperior to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he muft know many languages and many fciences ; and, that his ftyle may be worthy of his thoughts, muft,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 Seiten
...content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write...Generations; as a being superior to time and place. many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by incessant... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 Seiten
...content himself with the slow progress of his name, contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must write...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labor is not yet at an end : he must know. many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 Seiten
...content himself with the slow progress of his -name, contejnn the applause of his own . ime, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He musT write...interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and onsider himself aspre siding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - 1813 - 338 Seiten
...bad taste, or mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the...generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The originality of distortion ; and the false glare of unnatural combinations, is, indeed, a puerile... | |
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