 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...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 - 168 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...Collins's first production is added here from the Poetical Calendar : TO MISS AURELIA CR, ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDING. CEASE, fair Aurelia,... | |
 | William Collins - 1804 - 166 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...'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 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of 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 pàgines
...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 - 1805 - 238 pàgines
...obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...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 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of revival; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...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 pàgines
...it was not worthy of 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...Collins's first production is added here from the " Poetical Calendar." TO MISS AURELIA CR, ON HER WEEPING AT HER SISTER'S WEDDINC. Cease, fair Awrelia,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pàgines
...when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write...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... 
