 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...as well have introduced a feries of iambicks among their heroicks. His next work is the trarvflation of the Art of poetry ; which has received, in my opinion,...reader only fcorns it for pretending to be verfe. it * Having difentangled himfelf from the difficulties of rhyme, he may juftly be expected to give... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...unwarrantably licentious. Latin poets might as well have introduced a feries of iambicks among their heroic ks. His next work is the tranflation of the Art of poetry...can hardly fupport itfelf without bold figures and (hiking images. A poem frigidly dida&ick, without rhyme, is fo near to profe, that the reader only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...the Art of Poetry; which has received, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly insert itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly fuactick, without rhyme, is... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...the Art of Poetry; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...the Art of Poetry ; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactickj without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...the Art of Poetry ; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind ; it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...the Art of Poetry ; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...the Art of Poetry ; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind: it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...the Art of Poetry ; which has received, in my opinion, no less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactick, without rhyme,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...the art of poetry ; which has received, in my opinion, not less praise than it deserves. Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind : it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. A poem frigidly didactic, without rhyme, is... | |
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Blank verse, left merely to its numbers, has little operation either on the ear or mind ; it can hardly support itself without bold figures and striking images. 
