 ... the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed...  Rasselas - Stran 22avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 93 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
 | 1819 - 550 strani
...retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are...transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed, that the early writers are in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 strani
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first: or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, Which are...writers took possession of the most striking objects for descrip- t tion and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing tq those that followed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 strani
...retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first ; or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are...the same, the first writers took possession of the striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 376 strani
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are...for description, and the most probable occurrences forfiction, andleft nothing to those that followed them, but transcription of the same events, and... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 strani
...partly, perhaps, for the reason given by Dr. Johnson for the general superiority of the first poets : " the first writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and left nothing to those, that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 230 strani
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe Nature and Passion, which are...for fiction, and left nothing to those that followed , but transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - 250 strani
...retained the credit by consent •which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are...transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 strani
...retained the credit by consent •which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are...transcription of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 194 strani
...retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first: or whether, as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the lirst writers took possession of the most striking objects for description, and the most probable occurrences... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 strani
...the credit by consent which it received by accident at first : or whether, as the province of pi.etry is to describe nature and passion, which are always...and left nothing to those that followed them, but transcriptions of the same events, and new combinations of the same images. Whatever be the reason,... | |
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