 | 1899 - 972 Seiten
...therefore, 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...generations, as a being superior to time and place. <( His task is not yet at an end; he must know many languages and many sciences; and, that his style may be... | |
 | 1900 - 674 Seiten
...therefore content himself with the slow progress oI his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labours are not yet at an end ; he must know many languages and many sciences; and that his style may... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1900 - 462 Seiten
...eloquence, yet so opposite a mind as Johnson's ratines it. " He," said the old doctor concerning the poet, "must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator...over the thoughts and manners of future generations." To leave, then, Shelley's charm, his character, and all his private life, which the world well knows... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1902 - 724 Seiten
...therefore content himself with the slow progress ' , i his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...generations, as a being superior to time and place. "His labours are not yet at an end; he mnst know many languages and many sciences; and that his style may... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1908 - 224 Seiten
...time, and commit his claims to the justice ~bf~pos~terity. He must write as the intgrgreter of jaature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and uiaimera of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labours are not yet at... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 204 Seiten
...therefore, 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 as thu interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 Seiten
...therefore 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...time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end y he must know many languages and many sciences ; and that his style may be worthy of his thoughts,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1886 - 180 Seiten
...the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must \vrite jas_ the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding Transcendental :. beyond experience, ideal. over the thoughts and manners of future generations —... | |
 | George Edward Woodberry - 1920 - 350 Seiten
...eloquence, yet so opposite a mind as Johnson's ratines it. "He," said the old doctor concerning the poet, "must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator...over the thoughts and manners of future generations." To leave, then, Shelley's charm, his character, and all his private life, which the world well knows;... | |
 | 1889 - 960 Seiten
...for your deeds of glory. . . The muse forbids the noble to die " ; Doctor Johnson may say, The poet " must write as the interpreter of Nature and the legislator...of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over thoughts and manners of future generations, as being superior to time and place"; Carlyle may say,... | |
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He must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations — as a being superior to time and place. 
