 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1916 - 422 pages
...wrote the famous words which almost constitute a palinode to the whole of the rest of his notice : " In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honour. The '... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 964 pages
...agery is preserved, perhaps often improved; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to | concur...readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all i the refinements of subtility and the dogImatism of learning, must be finally de(cided all claim to... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - English literature - 1904 - 160 pages
...unlike Addison's when he approved the common verdict of the beauty of Gray's Elegy. "For 1 Rambler, 152. by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary...dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claims to poetical honors."1 Johnson held very strongly to many of the literary principles which we... | |
 | Edmund David Jones - Criticism - 1922 - 522 pages
...imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...reading public into highbrows, lowbrows, and middlebrows, posed problems never envisaged by Dr. Johnson.) In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...Gray Johnson says that he prefers Gray's life to any of his works but then goes on to exempt this one: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Clara Claiborne Park - Literary Collections - 1991 - 260 pages
...poems, the Doctor had been ready to praise. Of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard he wrote, "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors." Between... | |
 | John Guillory - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1993 - 422 pages
...of his panegyric thus functions as symptomatic discourse, as a commentary on the text-milieu itself: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard... | |
 | John Brewer, Susan Staves - Business & Economics - 1996 - 646 pages
...symptomatically to register the full force and resonance of the word "common" in eighteenth-century discourse: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of suhtility and the dogmatism of learning, must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | James Raven, Helen Small, Naomi Tadmor - Literary Collections - 1996 - 336 pages
...Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public Helen Small In the character of [Gray's] Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader;...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. Samuel... | |
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I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard... 
