 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 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'. 1 This life was originally written by Dr. Johnson, in the Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1748. It then... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 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;...and may be numbered among the benefactors to English literature7. * This life was originally written by Dr. Johnson, in the Gentleman's Magazine for May,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 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;...and may be numbered among the benefactors to English literature2. 1 This life was originally written by Dr. Johnson, in the Gentleman's Magazine for May,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 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;...and may be numbered among the benefactors to English literature1. 1 This life was originally written by Dr. Johnson, in the Gentleman's Magazine for May,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...he never labours after exquisite beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versi6cation is smooth, but rarely vigorous ; and his rhymes are...numbered among the benefactors to English literature.* OTWAY. OP THOMAS OTWAY, one of the first names in the English drama, little is known : nor is there... | |
 | Nicholas Carlisle - Royal households - 1829 - 402 pages
...Unhappy DRYDEN ! in all CHARLES'S days, ROSCOMMON only boasts unspotted lays. And Dr. JOHNSON adds, " he improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge,...numbered among the Benefactors to English Literature." He died in 1684, and was buried with great pomp in Westminster Abbey. RICHARD FINCHAM, Esq. THOMAS... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 390 pages
...gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous: and his rhymes ore remarkably exaet. He improved taste if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefaetors to English literature." ROSCOMMON. PHOM AN ESSAY ON TRANSLATED VBRbE. EACH poet with a... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1836 - 336 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 : and his rhymes are remarkably exaet. He improved taste if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefaetors... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous j scovery of the author. From this storm he was, as...secured by a sleight ;" of what kind, or by whose * "i in - Life was originally written by Dr. Johnson hi the " Gentleman's Magazine" for May. 1748.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1838 - 716 pages
...versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous j and his rhymes are remarkably exact. He improved taste, if ho did not enlarge knowledge, and may be numbered among the benefactors to English literature.* * This Life was originally written hy Dr. Johnson In the " Gentleman's Magazine" for May, 1748. It... | |
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He 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; and his rhymes are remarkably exact. He improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge,... 
