 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 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." f Dryden. If we except... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 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... | |
 | Sir Joshua Girling Fitch - 1897 - 304 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." Matthew Arnold, though not entirely for the same reason, disliked the current hymnology. He not only... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 550 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.' Works, viii. 386. See also ib. vii. 213 (The Life of Waller), where Johnson explains why 'poetical... | |
 | George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1897 - 512 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.' Works, viii. 386. See also ib. vii. 213 (The Life of Waller), where Johnson explains why 'poetical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 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 3. 34 His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of... | |
 | 1910 - 852 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." That Johnson should not have thought "Oh, God our help in ages past" done well Is in Itself surprising;... | |
 | Ontario Historical Society - 1924 - 294 страници
...admitting the justice of Dr. Samuel Johnson's view of devotional poetry that it was sufficient for Isaac Watts "to have done better than others what no man has done well," he is confident that "a tone of religious feeling will shed a new fervour and light over all which... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - 1978 - 124 страници
...Dissenter. It is true that in his rather condescending Life of Watts Johnson wrote: "It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done so well." But he also wrote: "Happy will be that reader whose mind is disposed by his verses or his... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 2001 - 580 страници
...merits between our author and other writers of the same class, Dr. Johnson observes, " It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." It was no small testimony to the poetic talents of Watts, that was shewn him by Mr. Cave, the original... | |
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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... 
