 | 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 contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was diflBcult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...man'sperformances, etc. Cf. Johnson, Life ofDryden : "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." Nations have their infancy, etc. Cf. Johnson's Dedication to Mrs. Lennox's Shakespear... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...performances, etc. Cf. Johnson, Life ofDryden : "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." Nations have their infancy, etc. Cf. Johnson's Dedication to Mrs. Lennox's Shakespear... | |
 | 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, and what were his means of supplying them. That which is easy at one time was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... 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... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 754 pages
...poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... 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 tune was difficult at another. Dryden at least imported his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...poets perhaps often pleased by chance. ... 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1914 - 362 pages
...poets perhaps often pleased by chance. . . . 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. 
