... nation surprised them as a novelty, and retained the credit by consent which it received by accident at first; or whether as the province of poetry is to describe nature and passion, which are always the same, the first writers took possession of... Rasselas: A Tale - Seite 28von Samuel Johnson - 1860 - 203 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
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...striking objects for descrip- t tion and the most probable occurrences for fiction, and left nothing tq those that followed them, but transcription of the...nature, and their followers of art: that the first e^ce) in strength ft^d invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement. " J was desirous to $dd... | |
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