 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 pages
...prejudices, aft. т all the refinements of subtlety ana the dogmatism of learning, must be tinallj n temporary topics, ami exhibiting no peculiar powers,...naturally sunk by its own weight into neglect This erery bosom return« an echo. — Tin- four stanzas, beginning " Yet степ these bones," ure to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety ana the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...images which find a mirror in every mind, and with centiments to which every bosom returns an echo.— The four stanzas, beginning " Yet even these bones,"... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...soul, that like an ample shield C» - take in ail ; and verge tmo-^gh for more.' Drydtn't SebattianE f In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning, "Yet even these bones," are to me original : I have never seen the notions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 pages
...improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets In the character of his Jilegy 24 I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Edward Tyrrel Channing - 1856 - 342 pages
...common answer is, Public Opinion, the general sense of mankind. Johnson, speaking of Gray, says, ' In the character of his Elegy, I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors.' Let... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 pages
...common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety, and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Johnson could not admit a deviation out of the customary routine in poetry, but there was not, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 pages
...imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...something valuable. When he pleases least, it can only be said that a good design was ill directed. * * In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | 1884 - 396 pages
...and meted out to him only that guarded praise which it was impossible not to give, said of it : — " In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetic honours. The '... | |
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I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard... 
