 | Gaius Valerius Catullus - 1875 - 326 pages
...reputation, and certain immortality. Thus Johnson, in his preface to Shakespeare, says of our great bard, ' He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.' " A safe test, and to be borne by those only who have said in the best way what men of all times think... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...longest known ha." bi-en mo-t considered, and what is most considered is best nn uVr stood. The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may...the dignity of an ancient and claim the privilege of an established fome and prescriptive veneration. He han long outlived his century, the term commonly... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...estimate his powers by his worst performances, and when he is dead, we rate them by his best. Shakespeare may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame aud prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test... | |
 | Great Britain - 1885 - 932 pages
...document, Dr. Johnson, with that unrivalled stateliness of his, writes as follows : — " The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit." The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 314 pages
...In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows : — ' The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.' The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1887 - 312 pages
...with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows : — 'The poet of whose works I have under' taken the revision may now begin to assume ' the dignity...term commonly fixed as the test of < literary merit.' The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Augustine Birrell - English literature - 1891 - 324 pages
...In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows : — ' The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.' The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | AUGUSTINE BIRRELL - 1891 - 350 pages
...itself. In that document, Dr. Johnson, with his unrivalled stateliness, writes as follows: — ' The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision may...term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.' The whirligig of time has brought in his revenges. The Doctor himself has been dead his century. He... | |
 | Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, George Henry Payne, Henry Goddard Leach - History - 1895 - 820 pages
...took to make this deliverance in 1828 than it would take in 1895, when the subject has fulfilled " his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit" Even a Carlyle, writing now, and in the same irritation against a poet whose poetry did not enable... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...none durst walk but he." "The poet of whose works I have undertaken the revision," writes Dr. Johnson, "may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient,...of established fame and prescriptive veneration." * " Each change of many-colored life he drew. Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new." f Yet Dryden... | |
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The poet, of whose works I have undertaken the revision, may now begin to assume the dignity of an ancient, and claim the privilege of established fame and prescriptive veneration. He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test... 
