 | Thomas Hirst - 1841 - 380 страници
...employs to find the true value of poetry, is still more appropriate to its hymnic section : he says, " By the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours." A writer... | |
 | William Collins - 1844 - 324 страници
...Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; fir by the com moo sense of readers, uncorniptrd with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learn, ing, must be finally decided all claim to poetical boDottrs. The 'Church yard' abounds with... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray - 1852 - 332 страници
...verge tmo-^gh for more.' Drydtn't SebattianE f In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers,...abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo- The four stanzas, beginning ' Yet even these... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 страници
...language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers,...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | 1854 - 788 страници
...common sense of readers oncorrupled with literary prejudices, after »11 the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors. The ' ChurchYard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments... | |
 | Edward Tyrrel Channing - 1856 - 342 страници
...mankind. Johnson, speaking of Gray, says, ' In the character of his Elegy, I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers...learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors.' Let us inquire into the authority here set up. We first take it for granted that an opinion,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 страници
...unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy" I rejoice to concur with the com' mon reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinement of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1863 - 304 страници
...; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinement of subtilty, and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard ' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 страници
...Yet he deals a fatal blow to his own opinions of the writer of the works he censures when he says : " By the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety, and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1866 - 298 страници
...; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted by literary prejudices, after all the refinement of subtilty, and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honour. ' The Church-yard ' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments... | |
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In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to... 
