 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to p(5etical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images- which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments" to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning Yet even these bones,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1903 - 190 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The ' Churchyard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The "Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - 1904 - 516 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The 'Churchyard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...with literary prejudice, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.' Yet while admitting... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1916 - 136 pages
...of the latter is the weakest of his Lives of the Poets; but speaking of the Elegy he concedes that "The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." Another factor in the remarkable vitality of the... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 488 pages
...Monthly, December 1880. vol. 46, p. 814). did in In Memoriam. This is what Johnson meant when he said : " The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." 1 The Elegy is the consummate, artistic expression... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1924 - 222 pages
...Amantissima, Vale ! " Johnson, too, reveals the attitude of the age to death when he says of Gray's Elegy : " The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." But the eighteenth century, though rhetorical at... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas beginning... | |
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Yet even these bones," are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. 
