| Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 páginas
...sentiments and reflections were not too deep for the common apprehension. " The Churchyard," Johnson says, "abounds with images which find a mirror in every...returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning ' Yet e'en these bones ' are to me original. I have never seen the notions in any other place. Yet he that... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1853 - 536 páginas
...sentiments and reflections were not too deep for the common apprehension. " The Churchyard," Johnson says, " abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning ' Yet e'en these bones ' are to me original. I have never seen the notions in any other place. Yet he that... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 páginas
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours....me original : I have never seen the notions in any * " I have a soul, that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more." DRYDEN'S... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 páginas
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours....Yet even these bones " are to me original : I have M The only existing copy of the ' Elegy in a Country Churchyard ' in the handwriting of ita author... | |
| 1854 - 788 páginas
...refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors. The ' ChurchYard' abounds with images which find a...even these bones,' are to me original : I have never «en the notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here, persuades himself that be has always... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 páginas
...Johnson, is essentially the same with which he had found fault in the " Ode to Eton College." " The poem abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Everything is in intense keeping. The images are few, but striking; the language is severely simple... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 páginas
...Johnson, is essentially the same with which he had found fault in the " Ode to Eton College." " The poem abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Everything is in intense keeping. The images are few, but striking; the language is severely simple... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1856 - 516 páginas
...frailties. These notes may properly conclude with Dr. Johnson's judgment on the poem, that it " ahounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every hosom returns an echo." See " Life of Gray." Seek'st them the plashy1 brink Of weedy lake, or marge... | |
| William Edward Baxter - 1860 - 264 páginas
...deep. Dr. Johnson remarked of Gray's ode, " On a distant prospect of Eton College :" — " The poem abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind,...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." The same might with equal propriety be said of Goldsmith's "Deserted Village," of Beattie's "Minstrel,"... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 páginas
...of subtilty, and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard ' abounds with images which find a...with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." But I am able to... | |
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