 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 pages
...through a waste of snowi. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant, in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 446 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. I 1 is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | George Coles - Apologetics - 1836 - 424 pages
...among the Hebrew poets, occupies the same rank as Pope among the English. It is remarked by Dr. Watts, that " there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted in his version of Homer." Dr. Johnson calls it "... | |
 | Alexander Pope - English poetry - 1836 - 502 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, ls find, Or God and nature meant to mere mankind, Reason's the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...of »DOWU. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that thore is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...through a waste of snowa. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into hisversion of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | Leonard Woods, Charles D. Pigeon - American essays - 1838 - 708 pages
...shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." And Dr. Watts has said that " there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted in his version of Homer. In detailing the incidents... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...through a waste of B no WE. But the reason of this preference I cannot discover. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...through a waste of snows. But the reason of this preference I cannot discorer. It is remarked by Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase ctically elegant in the English language, wh Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he... | |
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Watts, that there is scarcely a happy combination of words, or a phrase poetically elegant in the English language, which Pope has not inserted into his version of Homer. How he obtained possession of so many beauties of speech, it were desirable to know.... 
