 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen, form and polifli large manes by continued meditation, and write their productions...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his cuftom was to pour out a great number of verfes in the morning, and pafs the day in retrenching exuberances... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...defpair. He laboured his works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of compofition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen., form and polifh large mafles by continued meditation, and write their productions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...defpair. He laboured his works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of competition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen, form and polifh large maffes by continued meditation, and write their productions only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...defpair. He laboured his works Arft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of Cotnpofition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate iife of the pen, form and poliih large mafles by continued meditation, and write their productions... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...defpair. He laboured his works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of compofition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen, form and polifh large maffes by continued meditation, and write their productions only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...defpair. He laboured his -works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards ta keep it. Of compofition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen, form and polifh large mafles by continued meditation, and write their productions only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...by defpair. He laboured his works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of compofuion there are different methods, Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen,, form and polim large rnafies by continued meditation, and write their productions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...defpair. He laboured Jus works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. Of compofition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the pen, form and polifh large mafles by continued meditation, and write their productions only... | |
 | 1793 - 738 pages
...laboured his works firft to gain reputation, and afterwards to keep it. " Of compolition there arc different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate ufe of the ' pen, form and poÜih ¡arge malTcs by continued meditation, and write their productions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...nor quitted it by despair. He laboured his works first to gain reputation and afterwards to keep it. Of composition there are different methods. Some employ...large masses by continued meditation, and write their production only when, in their own opinion, they have completed them. It is related of Virgil, that... | |
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Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they... 
