 | William John Courthope - 1905 - 528 Seiten
...and he put his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame,1 that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry....slow motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants.2 Of Gray's Progress of Poesy and Bard he says : — These odes are marked by glittering... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 Seiten
...think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry4. His lines commonly are of slow motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants5. As men are often esteemed who cannot be loved, so the poetry of Collins may sometimes... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...revival; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure." — Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the English Poets (1779-81). "Let Dr. Johnson, with all his erudition,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1908 - 562 Seiten
...revival; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...Collins may sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure."—Samuel Johnson, The Lives of the English Poets (1 779-81). "Let Dr. Johnson, with all... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 Seiten
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with spme later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...sometimes extort praise when it gives little- pleasure. — JOHNSON, SAMUEL, 1779-81, Collins, Lives of the English Poets. One of our most exquisite poets,... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 Seiten
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure. The elaborate biography of Savage, written, as already stated, many years before, fills a space wholly... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - 1922 - 492 Seiten
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry." * How different is Goldsmith's treatment of Collins ! He praises the Ode to Evening* Nor did Goldsmith... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 Seiten
...revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...sometimes extort praise when it gives little pleasure." Feb. The life we are now entering upon is that of Dr. Young, Vol.8 66 written, at the request of Dr.... | |
 | John Buchan - 1923 - 746 Seiten
...of revival ; and he put words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants. Johnson saw a clogging of the movement in such lines as The oak-crown'd sisters and their chastc-ey'd... | |
 | 1924 - 138 Seiten
...revival/ and he put his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to...motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants. — Daß Collins manchmal etwas Unverständ» lich ist, kann nicht bestritten werden, aber das kommt... | |
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I have formerly said of his writings may be added, that his diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured, and injudiciously selected. He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the common order, seeming... 
