 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...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 contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time is difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...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 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 - English poetry - 1858 - 418 pages
...of lower value, though of greater bulk. 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. Thatwhich is easy at onetime was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | John Dryden - 1867 - 556 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Crampton - 1868 - 136 pages
...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 contemporaries and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time is difficult at another. Drydeu at least imported his... | |
 | Richard Randolph - 1871 - 126 pages
...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 contemporaries and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another."* The light of inspiration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...rather as cautions than as final tests : — ' 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' (p. 61). There is here given... | |
 | Education - 1892 - 708 pages
...point of approach. " To judge rightly of an author," said Dr. Johnson, " we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of satisfying them." In the spirit of this dictum instructors have conceived it to be their special mission... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...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 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... | |
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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. 
