 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...and impeded with clusters of consonants. As men are * It i> now printed in the present collection. E. are often esteemed who cannot be loved, so the poetry... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pages
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...'consonants. As men are often esteemed who cannot be loved, 10 so the poetry of Collins may sometimes extort praise, when it gives little pleasure." Mr. Collins's... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...revival ; and lie puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry. His lines commonly areot slow motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants. As men are •It is now printed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...performances which strike with wonder, are combinations of skilful genius with happy casualty. Life of Pope. As men are often esteemed who cannot be •loved, so the poetry of some writers may sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure. Life of Collins. For the same... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1805 - 238 pages
...of revival ; he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure." Notwithstanding the rigour with which this great critic comments on the productions even of his acknowledged... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...revival; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...slow motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonant?, As men are often~~esteemed who cannot be loved, so the poetry of Collins may sometimes... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 pages
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, wi*h some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...write poetry. His lines commonly are of slow motion, cloyged and impeded with clusters of consonants. As men are often esteemed who cannot be loved, so... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 554 pages
...order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is cer> tainly to write poetry. His lines commonly are of slow motion,...is added here from the Poetical Calendar. TO MISS AVRELIA CR, ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDINU. CEASE, fair Aurelia, cease to mourn; Lament not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 464 pages
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure. Mr. Collin's first production is added here from the " Poetical Calendar." TO JOSS AUREIIA CR, ON HER WEEPING... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...extort praise. when it gives little pleasure. Mr. Mr. Collins's first production is added here from the " Poetical Calendar." TO MISS AURELIA CR, ON... | |
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I have formerly said of his writings may be added, that his diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured, and injudiciously selected. He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming... 
