 | John Brazer - 1843 - 308 pages
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." These assertions of the great English moralist, though delivered with his usual authoritative air,... | |
 | Cazneau Palfrey, Ezra Stiles Gannett - 1843 - 444 pages
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." These assertions of the great English moralist, though delivered with his usual authoritative air,... | |
 | 1864 - 940 pages
...him," said Dr. Johnson, with true dogmatic stupidity, of the venerated father of English hymnology, " to have done better than others what no man has done well." It is sufficient for the Methodist poet, we may say with greater justice, to have done better than... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1847 - 606 pages
...good poetry could not be written upon a religious topic. " It is sufficient for Watts," said he, " to have done better than others, what no man has done well." To introduce politics into poetry is thought to be wrong by many critics, who would think you injured... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1845 - 862 pages
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction — it is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." This opinion is again advanced and elaborated by the critic in his life of Waller. That the sanctity... | |
 | 1845 - 636 pages
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for W'atts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." Cowper quarrels with Johnson on this point. But Cowper, in defending Watts, was fighting the battle... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 476 pages
...writes, "His devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory:" and adds, "It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." And how keenly and truly does Dr. Johnson discern the true orthodoxy of character, " It was not only... | |
 | Robert Armitage - 1850 - 562 pages
..." His devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory:" and adds, -—" It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." And how keenly and truly does Dr. Johnson discern the true orthodoxy of character,—" It was not only... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1850 - 260 pages
...that good poetry could not be written upon a religious topic. " It is sufficient for "Watts," said he, "to have done better than others, what no man has done well." To introduce polities into poetry is thought to be wrong by many critics, who would think you injured... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...repetition ; and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of a man of letters ; and have... | |
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But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than... 
