 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 - 1837 - 752 pages
...knowing than himself. His epithet "buxom health" is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word. ) &? ! \ ++W _ CJw +/ D= , x p V V WE ...2 ,! l09 # n=U v 9 ~ z :& ~ Of the "Ode on Adversity" the hint was at first taken from " O Diva, gratum cjuoe regis Annum ;" but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...knowing than himself. His epithet "buxom health" is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was...Dryden "honey redolent of Spring," an expression that reach* .• the utmost limits of our language, Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...poetical as it was mort remote from common use : finding in Dry den " honey redolent of Spring," ai expression that reaches the utmost limits of our language, Gray drove it a little wore beyond common apprehension li\ Halting " gales " to be " redolent of joy nd youth." Of the ' Ode... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 pages
...he secins not to understand the word. Grav thought his language more poetical as it was more nun te l his biographers seem n the utmost limits of our language, Gray drove it a little more beyond common apprehension, bv making... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 pages
...he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remóle from common use; finding in Dryden "honey redolent...apprehension, by making "gales" to be "redolent of joy anil youth." Of the "Ode on Adversity" the hint was at first taken from "O Diva, gratum qua; régis... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 pages
...knowing than himself. His epithet ' huxom health' is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was...limits of our language. Gray drove it a little more heyond common apprehension, hy making * gales' to he '.redolent of joy and youth.' Of the * Ode on... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 328 pages
...he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remoie from common use; finding in Dryden * honey redolent of spring,* an expression that reaches the utna ot I limits of our language, Gray drove it a little more heyond common apprehension, hy making... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...himself. His epithet "buxom health" is not elegant; he seems not to understand the word. Graythougbt his language more poetical as it was more remote from common use; finding in Drydcn "htmey redolent of Spring," an expression that nacies the utmost limits of our language, Gray... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 pages
...knowing than himself. His epithet ' buxom health* is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was...making * gales' to be * redolent of joy and youth.' Of the ' Ode on Adversity' the hint was at first taken from • O Diva, gratum quse regis Antium :'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...knowing than himself. His epithet " buxom health " is not elegant ; he seems not to understand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was...making "gales" to be "redolent of joy and youth." Of the Ode on Adversity the hint was at first taken from 0 Diva, gratum qwe regis Antium ; but Gray... | |
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