 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1759 - 176 pages
...hiftory continued. A clit fe nation upon poetry. WH EREVERI went, 1 found that Poetry was-confidered as the :higheft learning, and regarded with a veneration...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And it yet fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the mod ancient poets... | |
 | Giuseppe Baretti - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...Pottry, from the Prince of Abißiniut ¿y SAMUEL JOHNSON. •" Л. * *1 VyHEREVER I went I found that poetry was confidered as the higheft learning, and...fomewhat approaching to that, which man would pay to angelic nature. It yet fills me with wonder, that in almoft all countries, the moft ancient poets are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...CHAP. X. JMt AC'S HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY. "TTT7HEREVER I went, I found * *^ that poetry was confidered as the higheft learning, and...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the moft ancient poets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...poflefiions. C II A PX HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY. "-ITTHEREVER I went, I found that poetry * ? was confidered as the higheft learning,...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the moft ancient poets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...CHAP. X. i IMLAC'S HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY. " -ITTHEREVER I went, I found that poetry ^ was confidered as the higheft learning, and...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature.. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in ali-noil all countries, the moft ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...DISSERTATION UPON POETRY. " \T7HEREVER I went, I found that poetry * was confidered as the higbeft learning, and regarded with a veneration fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the moil ancient poets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...pofleffions. IMLAC'S HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY. t( \\7 HEREVER I went, I found that poetry was confidered as the higheft learning, and...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the moft ancient poets... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...JMLAC'S HJSTOiV CONTINUEP. A DISSERTATION UPON POETRY. I " TT7HEREVER I went, I found that poetry VV was confidered as the higheft learning, and regarded...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the moft ancient poets... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...E/aji. J 76. The Bufintfi and £>ualific aliens tfa Poet dtfcribtJ. " Wherever I went, I found that poetry was confidered as the higheft learning, and...with a veneration fomewhat approaching to that which nun would pay to the angelic nature. And it yet £!ls me with wonder, that, in almod all countries,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 462 pages
...poffeffions. CHAP. X. IMLAC'S HISTORY CONTINUED. A DISSERTATi.ION UPON POETRY. RI went, I found that poetry was confidered as the higheft learning, and...fomewhat approaching to that which man would pay to the Angelick Nature. And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almoft all countries, the moft ancient poets... | |
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And yet it fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best : whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that... 
