 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 pages
...directed. His translations of Northern and Welsh poetry deserve praise ; the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike...concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...something valuable. When he pleases least, it can only be said that a good design was ill directed. * * 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... | |
 | 1884 - 396 pages
...and meted out to him only that guarded praise which it was impossible not to give, said of it : — " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 pages
...ill directed. His translations of Northern and Welsh poetry deserve praise; the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved, but the language is unlike the language of other poets. sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning Yet even these bones, are... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 478 pages
...His art and his struggle are too visible and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. . . 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 subtlety and the... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - 1898 - 496 pages
...His art and his struggle are too visible and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. . . In the character of his 'Elegy,' I rejoice to concur with the commoi reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the... | |
 | George Tobias Flom - 1900 - 464 pages
...Johnson said : " His translations of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise : the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved, but the language is unlike the language of other poets." There are more correct statements in this sentence, perhaps, than in any other in the essay, but this... | |
 | Conrad Hjalmar Nordby - 1901 - 96 pages
...Johnson said : " His translations of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise : the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved, but the language is unlike the language of other poets." There are more correct statements in this sentence, perhaps, than in any other in the essay, but this... | |
 | John N. Crawford - 1903 - 442 pages
...of the Poets" and express himself critically, while sharply censuring Gray's other poems he said : 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 subtlety and the... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1903 - 190 pages
...Knowledge. Cp. No. 48. 3. 36. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day " In the character of his Klegy 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... | |
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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 to... 
