| Giuseppe Baretti - Language and languages - 1772 - 490 pages
...foon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My deare of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubjeét, and men to be my auditors. I could never defcribe what I had not feen: I could not hope to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 324 pages
...foon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubjecl, and men to be my auditors: I could never defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 534 pages
...foon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My deflre of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to...my auditors : I could never defcribe what I had not I feen : I could not hope to move thole with delight or terrour, whofe interefts and opinions I did... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 560 pages
...foon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubjedt, and men to be my auditors : I could never defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 546 pages
...foon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My dcfire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my lubjeft, and men to be my auditors : I could never defcribe what I had not feen: I could not hope to... | |
| English fiction - 1788 - 778 pages
...foun found that no man was ever great by imitation. My deiJre of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubjeil, r.nd men to be my auditors : I could never defciibe what I hail not feen : I could not hope... | |
| Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1790 - 318 pages
...foon found .that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to tranffer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubject, and men to be my auditors : I could never de• fcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 586 pages
...foon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubject, and men to be my auditors ; I could never defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1797 - 516 pages
...loon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to...my auditors : I could never defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope to move thofe with delight or terror, whofe interdis and opinions I did not... | |
| 1797 - 522 pages
...Butlfoon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My defire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my fubject, and men to be my auditors : I could never defcribe what I had not feen : I could not hope... | |
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