 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 418 pages
...laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentimer.ts and new images others may produce ; but to attempt...fhall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and ceedlefs curiofity. After all this, it is furely fuperfluous to anfwer the queftion that has once been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 516 pages
...laft years, Hall's Satires were iliewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentiments and new images others may produce .; but to attempt...improvement of verfification will be dangerous. Art and diligenc\have now done their beft, and what lliall be" added will be the effort of tedious toil and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. t * - . ... -New fentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of verification will be dangerous. Art. and diligence have now done their befl, and what .fhall be added... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fooner. New fentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of verification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what fhall be added... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1783 - 504 pages
...laft years, Hall's Satires were fhewn him, he wifh'd that he had feen them fooner. * New fcntimcnts and new images others may produce; but to attempt...Art and diligence have now done their beft, and what mall be added 'will be the effort of tedious toil and needlefs curiofity. After all this, it is furely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...his laft years, Hall's Satires were (hewn him, he wifhed that he had feen them fdoner. New fentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt...poet; otherwife than by afking in return, If Pope benot a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumfcribe poetry by a definition will only fhew the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 340 pages
...fentiments and new images others may produce} but to attempt any further improvement of verification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done...the queftion that has once been afked, Whether Pope was-a poet? otherwife than by aflcing in return., 'If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...his last years, Hall's Satires were shewn him, he wished that hehadiŤa them sooner. New sentiments and new images others may produce; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...!asr years. Hall's Satires were shewn him, he wished that he had seen them sooner. , New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 466 pages
...improvement of verfi" fication will be dangerous. Art and diligence *' have done their be/I ; and what Jhall be added will *' be the effort of tedious toil, and needlefs curiofity." This is a decifion, ex cathedra , ftronger, I think, than Johnfon has ventured to lay down in any other... | |
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New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. 
