 | 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Thomas M'Caleb - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 634
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments." Reference is frequently made, by those who take the opposite view of this subject, to instances of... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 434
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 328
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Oscar George Sonneck - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 746
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. These comparative, historical, and social views of the value, existence, and study of poetry are exactly... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - عدد الصفحات: 585
...limits of human intelligence, but by remarking that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | Robert Louis Fowler - 2004 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...limits of buman intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments. The reverence due to writings that have long subsisted arises therefore not from any credulous confidence... | |
 | 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 396
...Johnson said, truly, in speaking of Homer, " that nation after nation, and century after century, had been able to do little more than transpose his incidents,...name his characters, and paraphrase his sentiments." — Preface to Shakespeare, The usurer was attacked without mercy in the popular ballads of the time.... | |
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Pythagorean scale of numbers was at once discovered to be perfect; but the poems of Homer we yet know not to transcend the common limits of human intelligence, but by remarking, that nation after nation, and century after century, has been able to do... 
