...novelist, in which he takes up the subject at an early stage. [259] ' I am of opinion,' he says, ' that it is necessary for a genius to accommodate itself...age must take root in it, to flourish in the next.' * This remark is not cited for the purpose of controverting it ; else, we might object to its urging...

...novelist, in which he takes up the subject at an early stage. [259] 4 1 am of opinion,' he says, ' that it is necessary for a genius to accommodate itself...works published in this age must take root in it, to nourish in the next.' * This remark is not cited for the purpose of controverting it; else, we might...

...chance too so great, that posterity will be mended by what shall be handed down to them by this. And few, very few are they who make it their study and...in the next. As to your title, Sir, which you are pleased to require my opinion of, let me premise, that there was a time, and that within my own remembrance,...

...chance too so great, that posterity will be mended by what shall be handed down to them by this. And few, very few are they who make it their study and...in the next. As to your title, Sir, which you are pleased to require my opinion of, let me premise, that there was a time, and that within my own remembrance,...

...chance too so great, that posterity will be mended by what shall be handed down to them by this. And few, very few are they who make it their study and...am of opinion that it is necessary for a genius to acfommoilate itself to the mode and taste of the world it is cast into, since works published in this...

...he gently hinted to Hill at last that genius must try to accommodate itself to the time it lives in, "since works published in this age must take root in it to nourish in the next." The taste of the world, he goes on, has altered since Hill withdrew from it;...

...literarischen Bestrebungen in seiner Umgebung. 'I am of opinion that it is necessary for a genius to accomodate itself to the mode and taste of the world it is cast into', schrieb er an Aaron Hill am 27. Okt. 1748. Mit Beginn des vierten Jahrzehnts folgte eine Zeit der Stille...

...popular detraction and envy." Yet Richardson, the popular novelist, told Hill that he genuinely believed that 'it is necessary for a genius to accommodate...age must take root in it, to flourish in the next'. Hill 'would not, I am sure, wish to write to a future age only '. '7 Pope's undisputed popularity troubled...