 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...generally understood. Audiences applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... 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. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 pages
...generally understood. Audiences applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves...means of supplying them. That which is easy at one tune was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 pages
...generally understood. Audiences applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... 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. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 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...to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contem- 20 poraries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...generally understood. Audiences applauded by instinct; and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. . . . 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. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 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...the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of jin author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the 'wants of his contemporaries,... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 pages
...its changes and fashions, and at different times takes different forms." XM He explicitly states that "to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves...contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them." "• As early as the Observations on Macbeth (1745), Johnson had stated that "in order to make a true... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 pages
...generally understood. Audiences applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance ... 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. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 pages
...modern critical thought as to seem truisms; hence Johnson's provision in his "Life of Dryden" that "to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves...contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them."80 Yet, if even a single work of criticism had so changed perceptions of literature that its... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...eighteenth-century accounts of its own historical evolution. "Learning," we are told, by way of explanation, "once made popular is no longer learning: it has the...ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field it refreshes":1 - and consequently Johnson's greater fondness for the "memory" of Dryden4 is an attempt... | |
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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. 
