...exceedingly trifling and unfair. He says, " His supplication to Father Thames to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile ;...Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." This is sad work ; the more so as, in "Rasselas," Johnson himself had apostrophized the Nile as the...

...exceedingly trifling and unfair. He says, "His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile: Father...Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." This is sad work ; the more so, as, in " Rassclas," Johnson himself had apostrophised the Nile as the...

...beholder does not equally think and feel. His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father...expression that reaches the utmost limits of. our languege, Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension- by making " gales " to be " redolent...

...?' Of which the great Doctor says : ' His supplication to Father Thames to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no letter means of knowing than himself.' Was ever such a canon of criticism applied to poetry before...

...hypercritical comments on this Ode, says : " His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father...Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." To which Mitford replies by asking, " Are we by this rule to judge the following passage in the twentieth...

...Ode, says : " His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the bill, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." To which Mitford replies by asking, "Are we by this rule to judge the following passage in the twentieth...

...beholder does not equally think and feel. His supplication to Father Thames,28 to cell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father...means of knowing than himself. His epithet "buxom health"29 is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical...

...this Ode, says : " His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses {he ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." To which Mitford replies by asking, "Are we by this rule to judge the following passage in the twentieth...

...makes the poem universally interesting. " His supplication to Father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father...Thames has no better means of knowing than himself." In this case, Johnson was instantly reminded that Father Nile had been called upon for information...

...Stevenson, The New Arabian Nights, i- 351. 49. buxom health. Johnson objected to this expression. He says ' his epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word.' But the meaning of buxom is ' gracious, lively, brisk,' and Gray may be confidently justified. Skeat...