 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...science, and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather, he imported only the materials, and manufactured them by his own skill. The Dialogue on... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...have bestowed upon ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes. selves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his...supplying them. That which is easy at one time was diflBcult at another. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted before... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...ourselves, as the dew appears to rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contem30 poraries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...138-140. 132. Every man' s performances, etc. Cf. Johnson, Life ofDryden : "To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them." Nations have their infancy, etc. Cf. Johnson's Dedication to Mrs. Lennox's Shakespear Illustrated,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...138-140. 132. Every man'sperformances, etc. Cf. Johnson, Life ofDryden : "To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them." Nations have their infancy, etc. Cf. Johnson's Dedication to Mrs. Lennox's Shakespear Illustrated,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves to 197 his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries,...science, and gave his country what it wanted before ; or rather, he imported only the materials, and manufactured them by his own skill 5. 1 In his Timber;... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...science, and gave his country what it wanted before; or rather he imported only the materials, and manufactured them by his own skill. The dialogue on the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...science, and gave his country what it wanted before; or rather he imported only the materials, and manufactured them by his own skill. The dialogue on the... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...applauded by instinct, and poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine...means of supplying them. That which is easy at one tune was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his science, and gave his country what it wanted... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 752 pages
...often pleased by chance. . . . To Judge jjghtly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his tune, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means ofsupplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult [ at another. Dryden at least imported... | |
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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. 
