In the character of his elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim... Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author - Page 263by Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 384 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...imagery is preierved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...imagery is preferved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader -, for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 pages
...imagery is preferved, perhaps often im-pr^yed; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character; of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with Kterary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 504 pages
...preferved, perhaps often improved; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the chara&er of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...is preferved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of Other poets. * 3 In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...imagery is preferred, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...imagery is preferved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; fof by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...prefervcd, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the chara&er of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with liteVOL. VI. K rary rary prejudices, after all the refinements of... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 1036 pages
...improved; but the language b unlike the language of other poets. " In t)<e character of his £legy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common • fanfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty, and... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pages
...is preferved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. t " In the character of his " Elegy," I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common fenfe of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of fubtilty and the... | |
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