...Watts's " devotional poetry is like that of others, unsatisfactory." "It is sufficient," he adds, " for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." " He is at least one of the few poets with whom youih and ignorance may be safely pleased." Such faint...

...knowledge were large by which his fancy was to be supplied. His ear was well tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious, but his devotional poetry is, like that of otheiB,unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics £forces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of...

...knowledge were large by which his fancy was to be supplied. His ear was well-tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter...

...knowledge were large by which bis fancy was to be supplied. His ear was well toned, and his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter...

...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." These assertions of the great English moralist, though delivered with his usual authoritative air,...

...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." These assertions of the great English moralist, though delivered with his usual authoritative air,...

...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction — it is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." This opinion is again advanced and elaborated by the critic in his life of Waller. That the sanctity...

...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for W'atts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." Cowper quarrels with Johnson on this point. But Cowper, in defending Watts, was fighting the battle...

...writes, "His devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory:" and adds, "It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." And how keenly and truly does Dr. Johnson discern the true orthodoxy of character, " It was not only...

..." His devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory:" and adds, -—" It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." And how keenly and truly does Dr. Johnson discern the true orthodoxy of character,—" It was not only...