 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 228 pages
...his last years, Hall's Satires were shown him, he wished that he had seen them sooner. New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 pages
...his manner he picked innumerable holes in it, was still the last word in poetic art. " New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement in versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | Edward Garnett - 1922 - 396 pages
...scandalous improprieties, that corrupt the sons of Cervantes." — Senor Valdes. 2 "New sentiments and new images others may produce; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | Herbert Samuel Mallory - 1923 - 554 pages
...find him, in short, failing to show that passion for justice, that delicate sense of "'New sentiments and new images others may produce; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | John Sitter - 2001 - 322 pages
...falling away. On the matter of versification, Pope's heroic couplets were supreme: 196 "New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous."52 To an acute observer of the literary scene in 1782, it was clear... | |
 | John T. Lynch - 2003 - 244 pages
...Versification, too, is a progressive science, as Johnson notes of poetry after Dryden and Pope: "New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
 | Lynda Pratt - 2006 - 320 pages
...to conceive how poetry might develop beyond Pope's perfection of the heroic couplet: 'New sentiments and new images others may produce, but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous'.20 Southey overturns this declaration by maintaining that the heroic... | |
 | 1901 - 670 pages
...scandalous improprieties, that corrupt the sons of Cervantes." — Senor Valdes. 8 " New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added... | |
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New sentiments and new images others may produce ; but to attempt any further improvement of versification will be dangerous. Art and diligence have now done their best, and what shall be added will be the effort of tedious toil and needless curiosity. 
