 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pàgines
...when, after much blankverse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: " Now, Muse, let's sing of rats" And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived 4 We happened to He this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pàgines
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: " Now, Muse, let's sing of rats." And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pàgines
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: *' Now, Muse, let's sing of rats" And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived 7 " He too often n;akes use of the abstract for the concrete."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pàgines
...Muse, let'» sing of rait. 1 Daughter to Matthew William Burt, etq, governor of St. CUristophw'». 44 And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...the reader, perceived that the word had originally beeu mice, and had been altered to rat» as more dignified." " This passage," adds Mr. Boswell, " does... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pàgines
...Muse, let's bin;; of rats, ' Daughter to Matthew William Burr, esq. governor of St. Christopher's. " And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who sryly overlooked, the reader, perceived that the word had originally been mice, and had been altered... | |
 | 1814 - 510 pàgines
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: ' Now Muse, let's sing of rats.'/ And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...company, who slyly overlooked the reader, perceived that thjj word had originally been mice, and had been altered to rats as more dignified." "This passage,"... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pàgines
...after imich blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : i " Now, Muse, let's sing of rats." And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pàgines
...when, after much blank verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats. And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered to rats, as more dignified.* • Such is this little laughable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pàgines
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: " Now, Muse, let's sing of ratt." And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1822 - 430 pàgines
...much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph tbus — Now, Muse ! let's sing of rats : — and what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...to rats as more dignified." " This passage," adds Boswel], " does not appear in the printed work ; PART 5.] o Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it... | |
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Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats. 
