He appears to me to be the last of that great school that had modelled itself upon the ancients, and taught English poetry to resemble what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to... The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith.. - Seite 21von Oliver Goldsmith - 1806Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Parnell - 1866 - 324 Seiten
...what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it lent him, and he found the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more delightfully he resembled the other. To copy nature... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1869 - 404 Seiten
...nave allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider Xature with the lights it lent him; and he found that the...bungling workman is able to execute; to select such parts ач contribute to delight, is reserved only for those whom accident has blessed with uncommon talents,... | |
| Charles Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 Seiten
...what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it...blest with uncommon talents, or such as have read the ancients with indefatigable industry. Parnell is ever happy in the selection of his images, and scrupulously... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 556 Seiten
...what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it...blest with uncommon talents, or such as have read tho 1 Sec note at p. 158. 1 Compare Ruffliead's " Pope," p. 492 ; Spcnce, by Singer, p. 189 ; Johnson,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1881 - 780 Seiten
...generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he sets himself to consider nature with the lights it lent...delight is reserved only for those whom accident has blessed with uncommon talents, or such as have read the ancients with indefatigable industry. Parnell... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 784 Seiten
...observer of antiquity, he sets himself to consider nature with the lights it lent him; anil he fou'id that the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more...delight is reserved only for those whom accident has blessed with uncommon talents, or such as have read the ancients with indefatigable industry. Parnell... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1893 - 780 Seiten
...generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he sets uaded fou id that the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more delightfully he resembled the other. To... | |
| William John Courthope - 1905 - 502 Seiten
...what the generality of mankind have allowed to excel. A studious and correct observer of antiquity, he set himself to consider nature with the lights it lent him, and he found the more aid he borrowed from the one, the more delightfully he resembled the other. To copy nature... | |
| Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 Seiten
...true genius will only be concerned in administering such. R. KURD, Idea of Universal Poetry, 1766. To copy nature is a task the most bungling workman...delight is reserved only for those whom accident has Read the blessed with uncommon talents, or such as have read the ancients. ancients wjth indefatigable... | |
| Cecil Victor Deane - 1967 - 166 Seiten
...pencil: and to choose those attitudes and dispositions only, which are beautiful and engaging. . . . To copy nature is a task the most bungling workman...those whom accident has blest with uncommon talents. . . . Among the desultory remarks on diction that Gray lets fall in the course of his too scanty criticism... | |
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