 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...mil rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arofe in the train of compofition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 522 pages
...firft rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arofe in the train of compofition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantafiick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | SAMUEL johnson - 1781 - 292 pages
...firft rudely, and then correct them, .but laboured every line as k arofe in the train of compofition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnels for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 294 pages
...laboured ..every line as it arofe in the train of compofition^ and he had a notion not very,peculiar,that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | James Thomson Callender - 1782 - 78 pages
...not fail to remark, that the Rambler " nurfes in his mind a foolilh difefleem of kings *.' Mr Gray ' had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantaftic ' foppery to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of ' virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...firft rudely, and then correct themj but laboured every line as it arofe in the train of compofition ; and he had a. notion not very peculiar, that he could...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 676 pages
...firft rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arofe in the train of compofition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to hare been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...every line as it arofe in the train of compofition 5 and he had a notion not very peculiar, that lie could not write but at certain times, or at happy , moments •, a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 312 pages
...every- line as it arofe in the train of compofition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that lie could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kiudnefs for a man of learning and of virtue wifhes him to have been... | |
 | Christopher Smart - 1791 - 304 pages
...their decifion we fubmit our claim, We write not, fpeaknot, breathe not, but for them. * He (Mr. Gray) had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a famaftick foppery to which my kindnefs for a man of learn. ing and of vir;ue withes him to hive been... | |
| |
As a writer he had this peculiarity, that he did not write his pieces first rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times,... 
