Samuel Johnson Quote

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from nature or from life.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets (ed. 1787)

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from...

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from...

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from...

New arts are long in the world before poets describe them; for they borrow everything from their predecessors, and commonly derive very little from...