| William Mudford - 1802 - 166 pages
...elegant but not great; he never labours after exquisite beauties ; and he seldom falls into. gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous ; and his rhymes are remarkably exact." Rasselas has been considered as the masterpiece of Johnson, and has received very extensive and indeed... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...is elegant, but not great; he never labours after exquisite beauties and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous,...numbered among the benefactors to English literature. OTWA OF THOMAS OTWAY, one of thf first names in the English drama, little is known ; nor is there any... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...verfification is fmooth, but rarely vigorous ; and his rhymes are remarkably exact. He improved tafte, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefa&ors to Englifh literature*. * This Life was originally written by Dr. Johnfon in the Gentleman's... | |
| Samuel Butler, Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 414 pages
...seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous, and his rhymes arc remarkably exact. He improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefaciorc to English literature. MISCELLANIES. AN ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VERSE. HAPPY that author, whose... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 506 pages
...p. 264. versions. But Johnson elsewhere does Roscommon more justice, where he acknowledges, that " he improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefactors of English literature." Dryden has testified, in several places of his works, that he loved and honoured... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 500 pages
...p. 264. versions. But Johnson elsewhere does Roscommon more justice, where he acknowledges, that " he improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefactors of English literature." Dryden has testified, in several places of his works, that he loved and honoured... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 654 pages
...elegant, but not great ; he never labours at lor exquisite beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous...numbered among the benefactors to English literature '. 3 This Life was originally written by Dr. Johnson in the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1 748. It... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...elegant, but not great ; he never labours after exquisite beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous...numbered among the benefactors to English literature *. * This Life was originally written by Dr. Johnson in th» Gentleman's Magazine for May 1748. It... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...elegant, but not great ; he never labours after exquisite beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous,...numbered among the benefactors to English literature.* * This life was originally written by Dr. Johnson in the Gentlenan's Magazine, for May, 1748. It then... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1813 - 560 pages
...elegant, but not great ; he never labours after exquisite beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous,...among the benefactors to English literature." Nor ought it to be forgot, that he was the first critic who had the taste and spirit publicly to praise... | |
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