 | 1909 - 304 páginas
...feelings and guarded his own genius from contact with the rough world. ' He had a notion,' says Johnson, 'not very peculiar, that he could not write but at...learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.' Surely this impatience will seem only natural to those who remember the story of Johnson's life. He... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 páginas
...his 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 virtues wishes him to have been superior. ... To say that he has no beauties, would be unjust :... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 páginas
...feelings and guarded his own genius from con tact with the rough world. ' He had a notion,' say: Johnson, 'not very peculiar, that he could not write; but at...learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.' Surely this impatience will seem only natural to those who remember the story of Johnson's life. He... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 páginas
...genius from contact with the rough world. ' He had a notion,' says /Johnson, 'not very peculiar, that hq could not write but at certain times, or at happy...learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.' Surely this impatience will seem only natural to those who remember the story of Johnson's life. He... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 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. Gray's poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 páginas
...of common fame." (Of Gray's notion that he could not write but at certain times). — " A fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior." (Of the same poet). — " Criticism disdains to chase a schoolboy to his commonplaces." " Tyburn itself... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 páginas
...peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured 30 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?] GRAY'S Poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 284 páginas
...which was just beginning to be heard, was to Johnson merely contemptible. The poet Gray, for example, " had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...a fantastic foppery to which my kindness for a man oflearning and virtue wishes him to have been superior."* So, when Boswell wrote the life of Johnson,... | |
 | Annie Edwards Powell Dodds - 1926 - 280 páginas
...which was just beginning to be heard, was to Johnson merely contemptible. The poet Gray, for example, " had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments—a fantastic foppery to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have... | |
 | 320 páginas
...this spirit has moved me in my life, may easily give credit to what I say." Johnson says of Gray, " He had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...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,... | |
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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,... 
