 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 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 3. 34 His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of... | |
 | 1910 - 852 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." That Johnson should not have thought "Oh, God our help in ages past" done well Is in Itself surprising;... | |
 | Ontario Historical Society - 1924 - 294 páginas
...admitting the justice of Dr. Samuel Johnson's view of devotional poetry that it was sufficient for Isaac Watts "to have done better than others what no man has done well," he is confident that "a tone of religious feeling will shed a new fervour and light over all which... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 páginas
...Dissenter. It is true that in his rather condescending Life of Watts Johnson wrote: "It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done so well." But he also wrote: "Happy will be that reader whose mind is disposed by his verses or his... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 páginas
...merits between our author and other writers of the same class, Dr. Johnson observes, " It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." It was no small testimony to the poetic talents of Watts, that was shewn him by Mr. Cave, the original... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 páginas
...Fussell, Life of Writing, 132-34 and 216-19, ai"d Davis, In Mind of Johnson, 198-217. 91 "It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well;" "Life of Watts," Lives, 1n, 31o. 92 Reddick observes that, in the second half of the alphabet (MZ),... | |
 | Alan P. F. Sell, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - 2006 - 496 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 topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter... | |
 | 1836 - 590 páginas
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornamenU of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts, to have done better than others what no man has done well." Here is solace provided for any instance of imperfect success ; and while we refer to it, we must needs... | |
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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... 
