 | 1807 - 458 oldal
...late Rev. Joseph Grigg. 12wx>. 6d. Rivingtons. Or Dr. Watt's hymns, Johnson said, " It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." For a task so full of difficulty Mr. Grigg was little fitted. A good man, but no poet, he has only... | |
 | Walter Wilson - 1808 - 584 oldal
...between our author. tand other writers of the same class, Dr. Johnson observes, " It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." It was no small testimony to the poetic talents of Watts, that was shewn him by Mr. Cave, the original... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 oldal
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of a Man of Letters, and have... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 554 oldal
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of a man of letters, and have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 oldal
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well. His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of a Man of Letters, and have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 558 oldal
...matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done hetter than others what no man has done well, His poems on other suhjects seldom rise, higher than might he expected from the amusements of a man of letters, and have... | |
 | Erasmus Middleton - 1810 - 556 oldal
...the fandtity of the matter rejedts the ornaments of figurative didtion. It is fufficient for ffatts to have done better than others, what no man has done well.' This muft be read cum grano falls, confidering, who wrote this life, and for whofe peruial it was chiefly... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 oldal
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done, well. His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be expected from the amusements of a man of letters, and have... | |
 | Walter Hutchinson Aston - 1811 - 324 oldal
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative dietion, It is sufficient for Watts to have done better, than others what no man has done well." Dr. Johnson, I am inclined to think, had a very slight, acquaintance with Watts's poetry ; had he properly... | |
 | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 oldal
...repetition, and the fluidity of the matter rejects the ornamentt of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others, what no man has done well." How far our hymns may be charged with a want of what is styled the " Divine afflatns," — a term to... | |
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But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than... 
