 | Joseph Addison - 1880 - 712 páginas
...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 turnTJ It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism,... | |
 | Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1888 - 824 páginas
...justifying the truth of Addison's dictum, 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." The criticism in the Speclalor from * e.0., " And Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread.'1 which... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1899 - 534 páginas
...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 is impossible for us who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1896 - 112 páginas
...these remarks of Pope compare Addison : " Wit and fine writing do not consist so much in advancing things that are new as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn. It is impossible for us, who live in the later ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality,... | |
 | William Hall Griffin - 1897 - 406 páginas
...couplets of the critic of twenty, that 'Wit and fine Writing doth not consist BO much in advancing Things that are new, as in giving Things that are known an agreeable Turn.' What, for instance, could be neater or more skilful than the way in which these verses (some of which... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902 - 864 páginas
...review of the £ssav on Criticism, 'that Wit and Fine Writing doth not consist so much in advancing t forbad : nor circumscribed alone Their growing virtues, but their crimes — in other words, it is concerned less with the revelation of the unattempted or the unimagined in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...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.' Spectator, No. 253. ' Un bon mot n'est bon mot qu'en ce qu'il dit une chose que chacun pensait, et... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1905 - 418 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 is impossible for us, who live in the 25 latter ages 2 of the world, to make observations in criticism,... | |
 | George Herbert Mair - 1911 - 264 páginas
...consisting, as Addison put it in a review of Pope's first published poem, not so much "in advancing things that are new, as in giving things that are known an agreeable turn." Though in this largest sense the "classic" writers eschewed the vagueness of romanticism, in another... | |
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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. 
