 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 410 страници
...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... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1816 - 566 страници
...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 must be read cum grano satis, considering, who Wrote this life, and for whose perusal it was chiefly... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 464 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 страници
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 284 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 404 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 524 страници
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 446 страници
...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... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 страници
...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." * A regular Ode, on the same subject, by G. Dyer, may be seen in his " Poetics." t Dryden. If we except... | |
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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... 
