 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 664 pages
...the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults;... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 pages
...him a visit at Byfleet, in 1754. — WARTON, JOSEPH, 1756, Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope. A man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful.— JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Pope, Lives of the English Poets. The Anecdotes of Pope, compared with Boswell's... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 pages
...English " Odyssey " a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...just; what he thought, he thought rightly; and his re-- marks were recommended by his coolness and candour. In him Popehad the first experience of a critic... | |
 | William Bainter O'Neal - 1976 - 436 pages
...companion to several noblemen. Dr. Johnson said of him that "his learning was not very great, and his mind not very powerful; his criticism, however, was commonly...thought rightly, and his remarks were recommended by coolness and candour" (DNB). He explains his interest in and the origin of his work by saying: THE... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1820 - 666 pages
...acknowledge, that there U no appealing from this judgment : and nothing can be more true thau what follows. ' His criticism, however, was commonly just ; what he...thought rightly, and his remarks were recommended by coolness and candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence, who thought... | |
 | 1844 - 520 pages
...'Essay on Pope's Translation of the Odyssev.' Johnson «ays of him, in hie clever, rough way, " He was a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful :" a judgment which nobody can deny. The next place to Byfieet is Weybridge, a large village, without... | |
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Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just; what he thought, he thought rightly ;... 
