 About things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right ; and of Cato it has been not unjustly determined, that it is rather a poem in dialogue than a drama, rather a succession of just sentiments in elegant language, than a representation...  The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets - Página 86por Samuel Johnson - 1896Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 páginas
...is the varying degree with which he appeals to time as the final test of the merit of a composition. "About things on which the public thinks long it commonly attains to think right,"1 he declares; for in the common sense of readers over a long period of years he had confidence.... | |
 | James Agate - 1946 - 272 páginas
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 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 páginas
...embroidery. Ibid., B, II, 88. HE who pleases many must have some species of merit. Dr. Johnson, W, II, 279. ABOUT things on which the public thinks long, it commonly attains to think right. Ibid., Ill, 90. THE thoughts of the best minds always become the last opinion of Society. Emerson,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1934 - 624 páginas
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 | George Cookson - 1942 - 246 páginas
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