 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1899 - 432 pages
...itself. In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivaled stateliness, writes as follows : " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 442 pages
...itself. In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivaled stateliness, writes as follows : " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1902 - 346 pages
...itself. In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows:—' The poet of whose ' works I have undertaken the revision may...term ' commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.' The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Readers - 1905 - 494 pages
...been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood. The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the teat of literary merit. Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs,... | |
 | Beverley Ellison Warner - Drama - 1906 - 328 pages
...been longest known has been most considered, and what is most considered is best understood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1910 - 344 pages
...In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows : — ' The poet of whose ' works I have undertaken the revision may...the ' privilege of established fame and prescriptive venera' tion. He has long outlived his century, the term ' commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.'... | |
 | Literature - 1911 - 1224 pages
...as entertaining as it is neglected, Dr. Johnson says in his finest manner: "The poet of whose work I have undertaken the revision may now begin to assume...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." I have often thought that if the period of time fixed by Dr. Johnson as the test of literary merit... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English prose literature - 1911 - 744 pages
...1777, as given by Mr. Nichol Smith in his Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare.} . . . THE poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of an established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
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The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test... 
