Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.


The Life of Cowley - Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)

Samuel Johnson Quotes

Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.

Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.