 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 páginas
...and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Dr. Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.' This is trenchant enough, but it seems hardly adequate, and I think the reasons are not far to seek.... | |
 | Frederick Locker-Lampson - 1879 - 254 páginas
...and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Dr. Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.' This is trenchant enough, but it seems hardly adequate, and I think the reasons are not far to seek.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 páginas
...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. JOHN PHILIPS.—He unhappily pleased himself with blank verse, and supposed that the numbers of Milton,... | |
 | James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 páginas
...OTTI rot iv fifydpoKTt KIIKUV T* ayadov it TfTVKTOl." ' 3 ' His ear was well-tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious, but his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity My Thomson tlte poet. My illustrious friend and I parted with assurances... | |
 | James Boswell - 1887 - 492 páginas
..."orrI rot tv [tfydpoKrt naKov r1 ayaQov rz rCrVKrat." ' 3 'His ear was well-tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious, but his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity My illustrious friend and I parted with assurances of affectionate regard.... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 páginas
...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." * A regular Ode, on the same subject, by G. Dyer, may be seen in his " Poetics." f Dryden. If we except... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...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 topicks enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - 1897 - 304 páginas
...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." Matthew Arnold, though not entirely for the same reason, disliked the current hymnology. He not only... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 páginas
...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.' Works, viii. 386. See also ib. vii. 213 (The Life of Waller), where Johnson explains why 'poetical... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 páginas
...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.' Works, viii. 386. See also ib. vii. 213 (The Life of Waller), where Johnson explains why 'poetical... | |
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But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than... 
