 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pàgines
...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... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 pàgines
...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 - 1911 - 744 pàgines
...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 - 1911 - 744 pàgines
...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 - 1911 - 754 pàgines
...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 - 1911 - 752 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 pàgines
...rise from the field which it refreshes. To judge rightly of jin 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... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 376 pàgines
...different forms." XM He explicitly states that "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." "• As early as the Observations on Macbeth (1745), Johnson had stated that "in order... | |
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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. 
