 | Edmund Waller - English poetry - 1768 - 366 pages
...ornament: and this he did fo fuccefsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firll fetting out. Were we to ^judge barely by the wording, we could...what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide or' words that come in upon the Engliih Poet, and overflows •whatever he builds: but, this was lefs... | |
 | Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale - 1772 - 330 pages
...ornament : and this he did fo fuccefsfully, that his language is now as fre(h as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at four, fcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Engli(h Poet, and overflows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 274 pages
...ornament : and this he did fo fuccefsfully, that his language is now as fre(h as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could...what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, .of a tide at:de of words that comes in upon the Englifl: Poeti and overflows whatever he builds : but this was... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 276 pages
...: and this he did fo . fwccefsfully, that his language is new as frefti as it was at firft fctting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fowfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifti Poet, and overflows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 284 pages
...that h'rs language is now asfrefli as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to jadge barely by th« wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcare. He complains, indeed, of a tide PREFACE. $ a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifti... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 348 pages
...ornament : and this he did fo fuccelsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourlcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh Poet, and overflows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 336 pages
...like inflincT:, a ftile which perhaps will never be obfolete ; and that,, " were we " to judge only by the wording, we " could not know what was wrote at " twenty, and what a* foUrfcere." His verfification was in his firft cflay, fuch as it appears in his laft performance.... | |
 | Francis Atterbury - English letters - 1783 - 478 pages
...ornament : and this he did fo fuccefsfully, that his language is now as frefh as it was at firft fetting out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could...comes in upon the Englifh Poet, and overflows whatever he builds; but this was lefs his cafe than any man's that ever wrote; and the mifchief of it is, this... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...inftinct, a ftyle which perhaps will never be ofcfekte; and that, " were we to judge only by the word" ing, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, *' and what at fourfcore." His verfification was, in hii firft eflay, fuch as it appears in his laft performance. By the perufal... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...felicity like inftincl, a ftyle which perhaps will never be obfolete ; and that, " were we to judge only " by the wording, we could not know what " was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore." His verfification was, in his firft e.Tay, fuch as it appears in his hft performance. "Sty v\\c l>erufol... | |
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out. Were we to judge barely by the wording, we could not know what was wrote at twenty, and what at fourfcore. He complains, indeed, of a tide of words that comes in upon the Englifh poet, and overflows whatever 
