| Samuel Johnson - 1856 - 118 Seiten
...the latter in elegance and refinement. * * ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impei.eo me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors. I could never describe what I had not seen ; I could not hope to... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1857 - 428 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors; I could never describe what I had not seen ; 1 could not hope to... | |
| Francis Henry Underwood - 1871 - 664 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors. I could never describe what I had not seen ; I could not hope to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1876 - 430 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire, of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors : I could never describe what I had not seen : I could- not hope... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors : I could never describe what I had not seen ; I could not hope... | |
| William Beckford - 1883 - 456 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors; I could never describe what I had not seen; I could not hope to... | |
| William Beckford - 1883 - 452 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors; I could never describe what I had not seen; I could not hope to... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 216 Seiten
...Mecca. But I soon found that no man ^ was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled_me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be mysubject, and men to be my auditors : I could never describe what I had not seen ; I could not hope... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1891 - 286 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca.7 But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of 6 excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors : I could never describe what I had not seen ; I could not hope... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 Seiten
...suspended in the mosque of Mecca. But I soon found that no man was ever great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors : I could never describe that I had not seen : I could not hope... | |
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