 | John Scott Clark - 1900 - 886 oldal
...undistinguishable voracity and with an appetite for knowledge too eager to be nice. The ' Essay on Criticism ' displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety...attained by the maturest age and longest experience. . . . His frequent references to history, his allusions to various kinds of knowledge, and his images... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 654 oldal
...in its subject, which is the Art of Criticism. To Dr. Johnson this production appeared ' to display such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction,...modern learning, as are not often attained by the matured age and the longest experience.' This verdict of Johnson may be cited to show the great advance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 oldal
...Philips, and ended with those of Pope 4. 34 The same year was written the Essay on Criticism 5, a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such...such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning 6 as are not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published the honour... | |
 | Charles Townsend Copeland, Frank Wilson Cheney Hersey - 1909 - 666 oldal
...of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards, and being praised by Addison in the Spectator with sufficient... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 616 oldal
...all stolen. — MONTAGU, LADY MARY WORTLEY, 174041, Spence's Anecdotes, ed. Singer, p. 176. A work which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience. . . . One of his greatest, though of his earliest, works is the "Essay on Criticism," which, if he... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1928 - 1452 oldal
...Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the " Essay on Criticism "; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards; and, being praised by Addison in the " Spectator," with... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 oldal
...Boileau, Dryden, and Walsh. These were some of the qualities that prompted Johnson to note that the poem "displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety...such knowledge both of ancient and modern learning as is not often attained by the maturest age and longest experience" (in, 94). In the "Life of Cowley,"... | |
 | Philip Smallwood - 2003 - 234 oldal
...propriety of digression" (3:228-29); and earlier in the "Life of Pope" he had described it as a work "which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience" (3:94—95). 23. Cf. Stein Haugom Olsen, responding to the concept of "community" by reference to the... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 oldal
...Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year (1709) was written the Essay on Criticism; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such...attained by the maturest age and longest experience. It was published about two years afterwards... Not long after, Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock, the... | |
 | 1862 - 396 oldal
...Johnson as displaying such extent of comprehension, nicety of distinction, acquaintance with mankind, and knowledge both of ancient and modern learning, as are not often attained by the maturest age and experience. His translation of Homer is allowed by the learned to be the best which has been produced.... | |
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Miscellany, in a volume which began with the pastorals of Philips, and ended with those of Pope. The same year was written the Essay on Criticism ; a work which displays such extent of comprehension, such nicety of distinction, such acquaintance with... 
