 | Tobias Smollett - 1781 - 506 Seiten
...means of kr)OWJng than himfelf. His epithet &uxo?x health is not elegant; he feems nqt to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring^ qn expreflion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf . His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreffion that readies the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf . His epithet buxom health is not elegant j he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreflion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 294 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he feerns not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe: finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an exprefE 4 fiou fion that reaches the utmoft limits... | |
 | SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe: finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an exprcfi . , ' | B 4 • fion fion that reaches... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 Seiten
...nerve, (here . are fx t,,u;Ucs, four ftnight, and two oblique, and other fmall nervous branches. ' Gray thought his language more poetical, as it was more ' remote from common ufe *.' This aflertion is not entirely without foundation, but it is very far from being quite true.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreflion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant ; he fccms not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreffion that readies the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 Seiten
...means of knowing than himfelf. His epithet buxom health is not elegant; he feems not to underftand the word. Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe : finding in Dryden honey redolent of Spring, an expreffion that reaches the utmoft limits of our... | |
 | 1787 - 672 Seiten
...explains the term by gay — lively— brijk , from Crajhaiv ; and by 'wanton—jolly — from Dryden. " Gray thought his language more poetical as it was more remote from common ufe." ' Indeed ! and I will venture to maintain, that this rule in general will be no bad criterion... | |
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His supplication to father Thames, to tell him who drives the hoop or tosses the ball, is useless and puerile. Father Thames/ has no better means of knowing than himself. 
