 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge rightly of an author, we muft tranfport ourfelves to his time,. and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of fupplying them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his fcience, and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather, he imported only the materials, and manufadtured them by his own fkill. The dialogue on the Drama was one of his firft efiays of criticifm,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge rightly of an author, we muft tranfport ourfelves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of fupplying them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 456 pages
...them. That which i§ eafy at p.rje time was difficult at another, Dryden at leaft imported his fcience, and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather,...imported only the materials, and manufactured them by his p,wn fkill. The dialogue on the Drama was one of his firft eflays of criticifm, written when he was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...rife from the field which it refrefhes. { To judge rightly of an author, we muft tranfport ourfelves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of fupplying them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge .rightly of an author, we muft tranfpojt ourfelves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, arfd what were his means of fupplying them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another.... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...rife from the field which it refrefhes. To judge rightly of an author, we muft tranfport ourfelves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of fupplying them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...rife from the field which it refrefiies. To judge rightly of an author, we muft tranfport ourfelves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of fupplying them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 450 pages
...them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at leaft imported his fcience, and gave his country what it wanted before ; or, rather, he imported only the materials, ancj. manufactured them by his own lkill. The The dialogue on the Drama was one of his firft eflays... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...them. That which is eafy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at lead imported his fcience, and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather,...only the materials, and manufactured them by his own fkill. The dialogue on the Drama was one of his firft elfays of criticifm, written when he was yet... | |
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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. 
