 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 pages
...advancing things that are new, as in giving things 30 that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter Ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - 410 pages
...comparison, /taking as the standard of excellence the Greek and Latin classics. " It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observa(J) Spectator, No. 69 ; Freeholder, No. 47 ; Spectator, No. 454. (») TatUr, No. 165. (*} Le... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 662 pages
...advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by... | |
 | Caroline Mabel Goad - 1918 - 654 pages
...advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by... | |
 | 1881 - 970 pages
...advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeahle turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world to make observations on criticism, morality, or any art and science which have not been touched upon by others.... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world to make observations on criticism, morality, or any art and science which have not been touched upon by others.... | |
 | 1881 - 972 pages
...advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeahle turn. It is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world to make observations on criticism, morality, or any art and science which have not been touched upon by others.... | |
 | Robert Weisbuch - 1989 - 364 pages
...Jackson Bate quotes Addison in the Spectator as Addison himself paraphrases Boileau: "It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations . . . which have not been touched on by others." He quotes Steele in the Guardian: "Nature... | |
 | Joseph Warton - 2004 - 368 pages
...advancing things thai are new, as. in giving things that are known an agreeable tarn, ft is impoflible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world,...make obfervations in criticifm, morality, or any art and fcience, which have not been touched upon by cthers. We have little elfe left us, but to reprefent... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 pages
...advancing things that are new as in giving 20 things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by... | |
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And here give me leave to mention what Monsieur Boileau has so well enlarged upon in the preface to his works: That wit and fine writing doth not consist so much in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It... 
