 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...related of Virgil that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and to pass the day in retrenching exuberances, and correcting...inaccuracies. The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify. decorate,... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 pages
...with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and s write their productions only when, in their own opinion,...completed them. It is related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 pages
...related of Virgil, that his custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances and correcting...inaccuracies. The method of Pope, as may be collected from his translation, was to write his first thoughts in his first words, and gradually to amplify, decorate,... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses custom was to pour out a great number of verses in the morning, and pass the day in retrenching exuberances... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 pages
...once memory and invention; and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them," BISHOP PERCY. the world tastes them. The author I can only guess at. There is but one man, I think,... | |
 | 1841 - 782 pages
...memory and invention; and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses of continued meditation, and write their productions...when, in their own opinion, they have completed them." I may notice here, since it has, I think, escaped the eyes of Johnson's commentators, that Quiutilian... | |
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Of composition there are different methods. Some employ at once memory and invention, and, with little intermediate use of the pen, form and polish large masses by continued meditation, and write their productions only when, in their own opinion, they... 
