 | John Churton Collins - American poetry - 1905 - 332 pages
...accustom themselves and are familiar with the best authors shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feel it not, and be able to utter something like theirs which hath an authority above their own." — Works, Ed.... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1908 - 376 pages
...Authority above their owne. Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a mans study, the praise of quoting an other man fitly : And though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing then another, 35 ! yet hee must exercise all. For as in an Instrument, so in style, there must be a... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even 30 when they feele it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne. Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a mans study, the praise of quoting an other man fitly : And... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 374 pages
...find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even 30 when they feele it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne. Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a mans study, the praise of quoting an other man fitly: And... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1908 - 388 pages
...find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even 3° when they feele it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne. Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a mans study, the praise of quoting an other man fitly: And... | |
 | Lane Cooper - Literature - 1915 - 264 pages
...anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and, in the expression of their minds, even when they feele it not, be able to utter something like theirs which hath an Authority above their owne.1 V. SAMUEL JOHNSON Upon his mentioning that when he came to College he wrote his first exercise... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Gay - American literature - 1923 - 430 pages
...accustom themselves and are familiar with the best authors shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves; and in the expression of their minds,...theirs, which hath an authority above their own." In another place he says: "No matter how slow the style be at first, so it be labored and accurate;... | |
 | Ben Jonson - Authors, English - 1641 - 146 pages
...Authority above their owne. Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a mans study, the praise of quoting an other man fitly: And though a man be more prone, and able for one kind of writing, then another, yet hee must exercise all. For as in an Instrument, so in style, there must be a Harmonie,... | |
 | Ben Jonson - 1923 - 150 pages
...find somewhat of (us) them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feele it not, be able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne. Nay, sometimes it is the reward of a mans study, the praise of quoting an other man fitly: And... | |
 | Marguerite Wilkinson - Poetry - 1925 - 346 pages
...somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression of their minds, even when they feele it not, he able to utter something like theirs, which hath an Authority above their owne. — Ben Jonson From "Discoveries." There cannot be one colour of the mind ; an other of the wit.... | |
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For the mind and memory, are more sharply exercised in comprehending another man's things than our_own ; and such as accustom themselves, and are familiar with the best authors, shall ever and anon find somewhat of them in themselves, and in the expression... 
