 | William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...same ; he must, therefore, content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 162 pages
...the same: he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future Generations; as a being superior to time and place. many languages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 376 pages
...same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He must wiite as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Historical fiction - 1809 - 210 pages
...the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the praise of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations; as a being superior to time and place. " His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Ethiopia - 1810 - 230 pages
...the same ; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name, contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...legislator of mankind, and consider .himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. " His labor... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - English fiction - 1811 - 250 pages
...same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. "His labour... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 428 pages
...same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superior to time and place. " His... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English fiction - 1811 - 194 pages
...therefore ' content himself with the slow progress of his -name, contejnn the applause of his own . ime, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity....interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and onsider himself aspre siding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...therefore content himself with the slovr progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, aud commit his claims to the justice of posterity. He...legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place. ' His labour... | |
 | Sir Egerton Brydges - Essays - 1813 - 338 pages
...bad taste, or mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the...legislator of mankind ; and consider himself, as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The... | |
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... abstracted and invariable state; he must disregard present laws and opinions, and rise to general and transcendental truths, which will always be the same: he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause... 
