 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 601 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...field which it refreshes. " To judge rightly of an authour, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 606 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...field which it refreshes. " To judge rightly of an authour, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 614 pages
...first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is no longer learning; it has the appear* ance of something which we have bestowed upon ourselves,...field which it refreshes.. " To judge rightly of an authour, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries,... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...appearance of something which we have bestowed upon X ADVERTISEMENT. t ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes. " To judge... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular is...appearance of something which we have bestowed upon o'trselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes" To judge rightly of an authour,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...and gives lasting importance to names, which, kit to themselves, would vanish from remembrance. Ibid. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves...means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time, was difficult at another. Ibid. It is not easy for any man to write upon literature, or common... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 548 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular,...to his time, and examine what were the wants of his eotemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which was easy at one time was difficult... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 1152 pages
...Lfnming once made popular^ is no longer learning ; it has the appearance of something which we liave bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise...to his time, and examine what were the wants of his cotemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which was easy at one time was difficult... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 556 pages
...is no longer doubted, the evidence ceases to be examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular,...which we have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew ap- • pears to rise from the field which it refreshes. " To judge rightly of an author, we must transport... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 654 pages
...examined. Of an art universally practised, the first teacher is forgotten. Learning once made popular b ion, gain'd A short reprieve, but for three days obtain'd,...but in vain they strove. When I perceiv'd that al time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
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To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. 
