 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 страници
...pretend to speak as a critic; but I have heard Í Pijnted in the first volume of this collection. 2V, them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critic ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; bttt * Printed in the first volarae of this collection. the delight which they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a cwtick; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critic J but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | 1822 - 292 страници
...The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient writers, by the purity of...numbers, than by any power of invention, or vigour of sentiment. They are not all of equal value; the elegies excel the odes; and some of the exercises on... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critic; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 492 страници
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
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them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lufcioufly elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by * the exquifite imitation of the ancient writers, by the purity of the diction, and the harmony of the... 
