 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 576 páginas
...Dr. Johnson, who made poetry by pure effort of diligence, as a man casts up his ledger, observes : " He had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could...learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior." UNIDEAL POETRY: CRABBE* [January 1859.] THE criticism of contemporary art cannot possibly be mature.... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - 1860 - 546 páginas
...Dr. Johnson, who made poetry by pure effort of diligence, as a man casts up his ledger, observes: " He had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could...learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior." UNIDEAL POETRY: CKABBE.* [January 1859.] THE criticism of contemporary art cannot possibly be mature.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 páginas
...this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition...foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.17 Gray's Poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not... | |
 | 1871 - 832 páginas
...informs us that the poet " did not write his pieces at first rudely, and then correct them, but labored every line as it arose in the train of composition...man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior."2 It is said that Washington Irving was very fitful in his habits of writing — would sometimes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 páginas
...this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition...man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.26 35 Shaftesbury (1671-1713), the moralist and metaphysician. His collected works bear the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 páginas
...this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; ' a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 páginas
...this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition;...could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments—a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1898 - 346 páginas
...to what I -ay." Johnson says of Gray, " He had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not "rite but at certain times or at happy moments; a fantastic...learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior." There could be no more conclusive evidence that Gray's was no affectation than this epitaph, written,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 páginas
...first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition 2, and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery 3, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll, Thomas Seccombe - 1907 - 512 páginas
...in consenting to do anything so vulgar as to publish at all. He had a notion, says his great critic, "not very peculiar, that he could not write but at...foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior." All the writer in Johnson was jealous of new-fangled ideas... | |
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As a writer he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times,... 
