 | Isaac Disraeli - 1805 - 272 páginas
...these not too interesting to literary men, not fully, and very particularly to relate ? CHAPTER XL CRAY had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could not...certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantastic foppery I— — The author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from hellebore,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 páginas
...this peculiarity, that he did not write liis pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition:...not write but at certain times, or at happy moments. As a Poet, he stands .high in the estimation of the candid and judicious. His works aie not numerous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 páginas
...this peculiarity, that he did not write Ms pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition...GRAY'S poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name, if I confess that I contemplate it with less pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 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 virtue wishes him to have been superior.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 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 virtue wishes him to have been superior.... | |
 | 1810 - 286 páginas
...compare with the above, occurs in the life of Gray ; and is as follows : " He," (Gray) had a notion that he could " not write but at certain times ; or at happy mo" ments : a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness " for a man of learning and virtue, wishes him... | |
 | William Mudford - 1812 - 348 páginas
...as Johnson said of another kind of weakness which disfigured the character of Gray ; " a fantastick foppery- to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior." Before I dismiss the particulars which Cumberland has communicated with respect to the character of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 páginas
...not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning...GRAY's Poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name, if I confess that I contemplate it with less pleasure.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 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;...GRAY'S Poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name, if I confess that I contemplate it with less pleasure... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 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;...kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him ta have been superior. GRAY'S Poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an... | |
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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,... 
