 His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common use: finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expression that reaches the utmost limits of our...  Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author - Page 277by Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 384 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...knowing than himfelf . His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreffion that readies the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 pages
...knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he feerns not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe: finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an exprefE 4 fiou fion that reaches the utmoft limits... | |
 | SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe: finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an exprcfi . , ' | B 4 • fion fion that reaches... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent cf Spring, an expreflion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 pages
...kr)OWJng than himfelf. His epithet &uxo?x health is not elegant; he feems nqt to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring^ qn expreflion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreflion that reaches the utmoft limits of our language, Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehenfion, lion, by making gales to be redolent of joy and youth. Of the Ode on Adver/ity, the hint... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...nerve, (here . are fx t,,u;Ucs, four ftnight, and two oblique, and other fmall nervous branches. ' Gray thought his language more poetical, as it was more ' remote from common ufe *.' This aflertion is not entirely without foundation, but it is very far from being quite true.... | |
 | 1787 - 672 pages
...explains the term by gay — lively— brijk , from Crajhaiv ; and by 'wanton—jolly — from Dryden. " Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe." ' Indeed ! and I will venture to maintain, that this rule in general will be no bad criterion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreffion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | 1787 - 668 pages
...explains the term by gay — lively — Irijk, from Crajbaiv ; and by <u;antin— jolly — from Dryden. " Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe." ' Indeed ! and I will venture to maintain, that this rule in general will be no bad criterion... | |
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