 | 1907 - 506 páginas
...fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best; whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent, which... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - 366 páginas
...fills me with wonder that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1853 - 520 páginas
...fills me with wonder, that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best: whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is...and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry •of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which... | |
 | 1759 - 438 páginas
...poets are confidered as the bed ; whether it be tfm every other kind of knowledge is an acquifition gradually attained", and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that trre firft poetry of every nation furprifed them as a novelty, and retained the credit by confent which... | |
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... whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained, and poetry is a gift conferred at once ; or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received... 
