| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 258 ページ
...judgement to grow more exact, and as books or cohverfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpects. They are, I think, improved in general; yet I know...when it firft appeared, I tried to read, and foon defifled. I have never tried again, and therefore will not hazard either praife or cenfure. PROLOGUE... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 244 ページ
...judgement to grow more exact, and as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpe&s. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. Uf Liberty, when it firfl appeared, I tried to read, and loon defifted, I have never tried again, and... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 ページ
...books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpefts. They are, I think, improved itr general ; yet I know not whether they have not loft...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil,' This criticifm is elegant, candid, and judicious ; the praife •bedewed is not (as praifes often are)... | |
| John Young - 1783 - 124 ページ
...And flattened ftate ; and the Stridures muft have loft, ofcourfe, " part of what Tem" pie would call their Race ; a word which, " applied to wines, in...primitive fenfe, means " the flavour of the foil," It was once intended to print the Criticifm in a manner refembling the editions of Feftus, which diftinguifh,... | |
| John Philips - 1791 - 214 ページ
...Johnfon, fpeaking of Thomfon's Poems, after they were altered and enlarged by fubfequent revifals, fays, " They are, I think, improved " in general; yet I know...their race ; a word, which applied to wines, in its primi" live lenfe, means the flavor of the foil." The original and metaphorical meaning of the word... | |
| 1782 - 682 ページ
...to grow more cxait, and as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpetfts. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil. THE DEER and FAWN. AS Abel HafTan, who fo greatly diftinguilhed himfelf in the firft incurfions which... | |
| 1793 - 738 ページ
...knowledge and opened his profpeiTts. They *re, 1 think, improved in general ; yet I know ; not whether they not loft part of what Temple calls their race ; a...its primitive fenfe, means the flavour of the foil." CHARACTER of Dr. YOUNG's POETRY. '. [From the fame Work.] F Young's Poems it is difficult to give any... | |
| 1794 - 954 ページ
...books or converfation extended his knowledge' and opened his profpeAs. They are, I thini, L proved in general ; yet I know not whether they have not loft part of what Temple i.'' race," a word which, when applied to wine, in its primitive fcnfc, means the Savour u foil' "... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 972 ページ
...judgment to grow more exaS, ad as books or converfation extended his knowledge and opened his profpe&s. They are, I think, improved in general ; yet I know...of what Temple calls their " race," a word which, when applied to wine, in its primitive fcnfe, means the flavour of the foil. " The higheft praife which... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 ページ
...They are, I think, imroved in general; yet I know not whether they have not lost part of what 'emple calls their " race ;" a word which, applied to wines in its primitive inse, means the flavour of the soil. " Liberty," when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon... | |
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