 them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lufcioufly elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by * the exquifite imitation of the ancient writers, by the purity of the diction, and the harmony of the...  The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Strana 147autor/autoři: Samuel Johnson - 1779Úplné zobrazení - Podrobnosti o knize
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 564 str.
...pretend to speak as a critic; but I have heard Í Pijnted in the first volume of this collection. 2V, them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critic ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; bttt * Printed in the first volarae of this collection. the delight which they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a cwtick; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critic J but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick ; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | 1822 - 292 str.
...The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient writers, by the purity of...numbers, than by any power of invention, or vigour of sentiment. They are not all of equal value; the elegies excel the odes; and some of the exercises on... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critic; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 492 str.
...Italian, Latin, and English. Of the Italian I cannot pretend to speak as a critick; but I have heard them commended by a man well qualified to decide their merit. The Latin pieces are lusciously elegant; but the delight which they afford is rather by the exquisite imitation of the ancient... | |
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