 | Trevor Thornton Ross - 1998 - 412 sider
...Johnson's provision in his "Life of Dryden" that "to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them."80 Yet, if even a single work of criticism had so changed perceptions of literature... | |
 | René Wellek - 1978 - 768 sider
...forms.« 129. ebenda (Dryden), S. 411: »...to judge rightly of an author we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them.« 130. ebenda, S. 438: »...the irregularity of meter, to which the ears of that age... | |
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To judge rightly of an author, we must transport ourselves to his time, and examine what were the wants of his contemporaries, and what were his means of supplying them. 
