...bad taste, or mean genius, of some of its fashionable professors. The true Poet, as Johnson says, f " must write as the interpreter of Nature, and ' the...generations ; as -a being superior to time and place." The originality of distortion ; and the false glare of unnatural combinations, is, indeed, a puerile...

...same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must Jtuow many languages and many sciences j aud, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by...

...same ; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages...

...same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time; and commit his claims to the justice...interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and con- . sider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being...

...same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time ; and commit his claims to the justice...thoughts and manners of future generations ; as a being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages and many...

...the same : he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must kno\r many languages and many sciences ; and, that his style may be worthy of his thoughts, must, by...

...therefore, (content himself with the slow progress of his name 43), contemn the applause of his oivn time, and commit his claims to the justice of posterity....and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself a« presiding 44 over the thoughtsand manners of future generations, as a beiug superior to time and,...

...still aim at loftier distinctions. A poet must divest himself of the prejudices of his ago or country. He must write as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind. He must consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of successive generations. His...

...and accidental influences of climate or custom, from the sprightliness of infancy to the despondence first suspected. Mr Gray writes to Mr Walpole, on...Cambridge,) makes some of us cry a little ; and all, wrile as the interpreter of nature, and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding...

...same ; he must therefore content himself with the slow progress of his name ; contemn the applause of his own time, and commit his claims to the justice...the thoughts and manners of future generations ; as being superiour to time and place. " His labour is not yet at an end : he must know many languages...