 DEYDEN may be properly considered as the father of English criticism, as the writer who first taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greatest dramatist wrote without rules, conducted through life and...  The Works of Samuel Johnson - Page 382by Samuel Johnson - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...through life and nature by a genius that rarely miflcd, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them. Two Arts of Englljh Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which fortieth ing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatifl wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely mifled, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely mifled, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had negledted to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 484 pages
...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poetsr the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, conducted through life and' nature by a genius that rarely mifled, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglectcd to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 484 pages
...through life and nature by a genius that rarely mifled, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them. Two Arts ofEnglifo Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which fomething... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...through life and nature by a genius that rarely mifled, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to teach them. Two Arts of Lnglifi Poetry were written in the days of Elizabeth by Webb and Puttenham, from which ibmething might... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely mifled, and rarely deJerted him. Or" the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had negle&ed to... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...DR YDRYDEN may be properly confidered as the father of Englifh criticifm, as the writer •who firft taught us to determine upon principles the merit of composition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, condufted through life and nature by a genius that rarely mifled,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a genius that rarely miffed, and rarely dcferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...to determine upon principles the merit of compofition. Of our former poets, the greateft dramatift wrote without rules, conducted through life and nature by a .genius that rarely mined, and rarely deferted him. Of the reft, thofe who knew the laws of propriety had neglected to... | |
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