 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1864 - 460 pages
...never labours after exquisite beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versificationiis smooth, but rarely vigorous, and his rhymes are remarkably...numbered among the benefactors to English literature. OTWAY. AF Thomas Otway, one of the first names in the " English drama, little is known; nor is there... | |
 | Josiah Miller - Hymn writers - 1869 - 660 pages
...one who, writing so early, wrote so carefully and welL Dr. Johnson says of him as a writer : — ' His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous,...numbered among the benefactors to English literature.' Roscommon's second wife was Isabella, daughter of Matthew Boynton, of Barmston, in Yorkshire. They... | |
 | James Wills - 1875 - 760 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...taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be remembered among the benefactors to English literature." He is also said, by the same great authority,... | |
 | James Wills - Ireland - 1876 - 752 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...taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge, and may be remembered among the benefactors to English literature." He is also said, by the same great authority,... | |
 | Alfred Webb - Ireland - 1878 - 616 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." On the point of retiring to live in Rome, he was carried off rather suddenly by an attack of gout in... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1885 - 534 pages
...and literal 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... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - Great Britain - 1888 - 484 pages
...collections of the works of the British poets. Dr. Johnson, in his ' Life of Roscommon,' says that 'he improved taste, if he did not enlarge knowledge,...numbered among the benefactors to English literature.' Pope has celebrated him as the only moral •writer of the reign of Charles II : Unhappy Drjden ! —... | |
 | American fiction - 1901 - 560 pages
...beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous; his rhymes are remarkably exact. He improved taste if he did not enlarge knowledge, and maybe numbered among the benefactors to English literature." FRAZER HOOD. THE POETRY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.... | |
 | American fiction - 1901 - 544 pages
...beauties, and he seldom falls into gross faults. His versification is smooth, but rarely vigorous; his rhymes are remarkably exact. He improved taste if he did not enlarge knowledge, and maybe numbered among the benefactors to English literature." FRAZER HOOD. THE POETRY OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 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,...remarkably exact. He improved taste if he did not enlarge his Discourse of Friendship— "To Diary, ii. 149. 'April II, 1665. At the most ingenious and excellent... | |
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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,... 
