 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1835 - 476 pages
...rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves te his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves te submission, without endeavouring to discover the reason of his determinations ; and this he supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, William Hazlitt - 1840 - 784 pages
...test. ' To judge rightly of an author,' observes the last great writer, ' we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another.' range of human speculation.... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 972 pages
...test. ' To judge rightly of an author,' observes the last great writer, 'we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another.' " In the number and variety... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves been explained. supplying them. That which is easy at one lime was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Daniel Defoe - 1840 - 792 pages
...'To l| judge rightly of an author,' observes the last great writer, 'we must transport ourselves ¡| to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were Ы* means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another.' range of human... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...to teach them." And he adds wisely — " 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. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another." Let us, then, examine some... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...to teach them." And he adds wisely — " 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. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another." Let us, then, examine some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 360 pages
...vanish from remembrance. Ltfe O f Eryden. 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. That which is easy at one time .was difficult at another. HM. The two most engaging... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1853 - 336 pages
...\\ would vanish from rememIAfe of Drydm. 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. That which is easy at one time - was difficult at another. i;>M. The two most engaging... | |
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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. 
