| Edwin Beresford Chancellor - 1885 - 342 страници
...attends to the " minute. — The highest praise which he " has received ought not to be supprest : " it is said by Lord Lyttelton, in the " prologue to..." ' No line which, dying, he could wish to blot.' " CHAPTER V. The Hill, &c. n^HE Hill may be said to commence -*• at the junction of the road leading... | |
| James Grant Wilson - 1886 - 484 страници
...a memoir of James Thomson may with equal truth be applied to the writings of William Cullen Bryant: "The highest praise which he has received ought not to be suppressed : it is said by Lord Lyttleton, in the Prologue to his posthumous play, that his works contained " No line which, dying,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 страници
...hazard either praise or censure. The highest praise which he has received ought not to be supprest : it is said by Lord Lyttelton in the Prologue to his...contained " No line which, dying, he could wish to blot." ' Wordsworth observes (Works, vol. iii. p. .'535, ed. 1837) that even the '2nd edition of Thomson's... | |
| Jules Lefèvre-Deumier - 1895 - 350 страници
...plus tenté de renouveler l'épreuve. Je ne hasarderai donc, à ce sujet, ni blâme ni éloge. — Liberty, when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted. I hâve never tried again , and therefore will not hazard either praise or censure ». Ce qui équivaut... | |
| Charles James Longman - 1899 - 604 страници
...probable as a recent charge against Byron. Dr. Johnson would not to-day remark, in a Life of Thomson, 'His Liberty, when it first appeared, I tried to read,...tried again, and therefore will not hazard either censure or praise.' The Johnson of to day would ' try again,' or pretend to have tried. But how delightfully... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1901 - 320 страници
...fifth lecture on 'The English Poets.' 151. 3. Dr Johnson. See the conclusion of his ' Life of Thomson': "The highest praise which he has received ought not...contained ' No line which dying he could wish to blot.' " 151. 12. Bubb Dodington (1691-1762), a notorious place-hunter, with the redeeming quality of being... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1902 - 442 страници
...Let me never taste of gladnesse.'] V. ON THOMSON AND COWPER 85. Dr. Johnson mahes it his praise. ' It is said by Lord Lyttelton, in the Prologue to his...contained "no line which, dying, he could wish to blot."' Life of Thomson. Bub Doddingscn. George Bubb Dodington (1691-1762), one of Browning's 'persons of importance... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 страници
...sense, means the flavour of the soil *. Liberty, when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon 52 desisted. I have never tried again, and therefore will not hazard either praise or censure 2. The highest praise which he has received ought not to be 53 supprest ; it is said by Lord Lyttelton... | |
| J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 страници
...mock patriotism of the Whig opposition. Johnson's taste did not extend to its verse. James Thomson's ''Liberty, when it first appeared, I tried to read,...again, and therefore will not hazard either praise or censure.'102 Yet this did not condone the Hanoverian regime in stifling criticism by the Licensing... | |
| Suvir Kaul - 2000 - 358 страници
...impossible to make critical progress without summarizing large chunks of the poem. Johnson's comment ("Liberty, when it first appeared, I tried to read, and soon desisted. I have never tried again") continues to be persuasive.5" But it is worthwhile, before beginning an extended reading of the poem,... | |
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