 | George Saintsbury - 1916 - 422 pages
...wrote the famous words which almost constitute a palinode to the whole of the rest of his notice : " 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... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - 1922 - 522 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... | |
 | 1925 - 638 pages
...almost to bitterness, most of Gray's poetry, admitted the beauty of the "Elegy," and wrote of it that : "In the character of his 'Elegy' I rejoice to concur with the common reader. . . . The 'Churchyard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 pages
...directed._J His translations of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise ; the imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike...character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the 10 common reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all... | |
 | Jane Roberta Cooper - 1984 - 390 pages
...her introductory essay to The Common Reader. Here Woolf quotes from Dr. Johnson's "Life of Gray": " 'I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - 1987 - 422 pages
...Gray Johnson says that he prefers Gray's life to any of his works but then goes on to exempt this one: 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... | |
 | Alvin B. Kernan - 1989 - 384 pages
...longer than it is"—and hear the reader joining Johnson in praising Gray's most famous poem—"In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader." We feel with readers the repellent grossness of Pope's and Swift's physical imagery— "such as every... | |
 | Clara Claiborne Park - 1991 - 260 pages
...poems, the Doctor had been ready to praise. Of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard he wrote, "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... | |
 | John Guillory - 1993 - 422 pages
...of his panegyric thus functions as symptomatic discourse, as a commentary on the text-milieu itself: 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... | |
 | Philip Koch - 1994 - 400 pages
...quotes the following appraisal of Gray by Dr. Johnson — certainly no friend of solitary brooding: "In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader . . . The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to... | |
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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... 
