 | 1826 - 440 páginas
...these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have written at all, if they bad not written upon the pattern of some original. But when the ear and the taste have been much accustomed... | |
 | 1833 - 684 páginas
...these twenty years. Imitation, even of the best models, is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of...at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of some original." Now, as they read him, it seems, with a view to imitation, they are so far a different... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - 1833 - 512 páginas
...these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of...at all if they had not written upon the pattern of some original. But when the ear and the taste have been much accustomed to the style and manner of... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (biographer.) - 1833 - 426 páginas
...name of author, who could not have written at all if they had not written upon the pattern of some original. But when the ear, and the taste have been much accustomed to the style and manner of others, it is almost impossible to avoid it, and we imitate, in spite of ourselves,... | |
 | 1835 - 440 páginas
...these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion ; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have written at nil, if they had not written upon the pattern of some original/ But when the ear and the taste have... | |
 | Charles Robert Leslie - 1845 - 404 páginas
...beft models is my averfion ; it is fervile and mechanical ; a trick that has enabled many to ufurp the name of author, who could not have written at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of fomebody indeed original.' "* * The laft book Conftable had been reading, and on which his attention... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1847 - 454 páginas
...these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion. It is servile and mechanical,—a trick that has enabled many to usurp the name of author...at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of some one indeed original. But when the ear and taste have been much accustomed to the manner of others,... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 438 páginas
...read an English poet these thirteen years, and but one these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion. It is servile and mechanical,...at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of some one indeed original. But when the ear and taste have been much accustomed literary revolution... | |
 | Hugh Miller - 1851 - 468 páginas
...read an English poet these thirteen years, and but one these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion. It is servile and mechanical,...at all, if they had not written upon the pattern of some one indeed original. But when the ear and taste have been much accustomed literary revolution... | |
 | 1851 - 592 páginas
...these twenty years. Imitation even of the best models is my aversion; it is a servile and mechanical trick, that has enabled many to usurp the name of...at all if they had not written upon the pattern of some original. But when the ear, and the taste have been much accustomed to the style and manner of... | |
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I have not read an English poet these thirteen years, and but one these twenty years. Imitation, even of the best models, is my aversion ; it is servile and mechanical, a trick that has enabled many to usurp the name of author, who could not have written... 
