 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 σελίδες
...the simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...with the care and diligence that it deserves. Several critics have offered their conjectures ; but none have much endeavoured to enforce or ascertain them.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 σελίδες
...to the simplicity of the first plan ; to find what was projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface : and are not these the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 σελίδες
...the simplicity of its first plan; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." — Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson'.-, circumstances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 σελίδες
...the simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." — Is this the language of one who wished to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's circumstances... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 σελίδες
...the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...with the care and diligence that it deserves. Several critics have offered their conjectures, but none have much endeavoured to enforce or ascertain them.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 508 σελίδες
...simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, VOL. i. o whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his own."7 — Is this the language of one who wishes to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 514 σελίδες
...simplicity of its first plan ; to find what was first projected, voi,. i. o whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...Nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his own."7 — Is this the language of one who wishes to blast the laurels of Milton ? Though Johnson's... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 σελίδες
...the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...materials were collected; whether its founder dug thorn from the quarries of nature, or demolished other buildings to embellish his own. " This inquiry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 436 σελίδες
...to the simplicity of the first plan ; to find what was projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." These were the motives that induced Johnson to assist Lauder with a preface ; and are not these the... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1824 - 522 σελίδες
...Lost, that "it roust be interesting to find what was first projected, whence the scheme was taken, how it was improved, by what assistance it was executed,...demolished other buildings to embellish his own." It is equally desirable to trace the sources from whence Shakspeare extracted the raw material which... | |
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... gradually rising, perhaps from small beginnings, till its foundation rests in the centre, and its turrets sparkle in the skies ; to trace back the structure through all its varieties, to the simplicity of its first plan, to find what was first projected,... 
