 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 516 pages
...was not very great, and whofe mind was not very powerful. His criticifm, however, was commonly juft; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience of a critick without malevolence, who thought... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 396 pages
...great, and whofe 1 i . mind mind was not very powerful. His cri* ticifm, however, was commonly juft, what he .thought,• he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his toolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience -of a critic.k without malevolence, who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 522 pages
...not very great, and whofe mind was not very powerful. His criticifm, however, was cornrnonly juft; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience of a critick without malevolence, who thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 418 pages
...was not very great, and whofe mind was not very powerful. His criticifm, however, was commonly juft* what he thought,, he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience ef a critick without malevolence, who thought... | |
 | James Boswell - 1786 - 552 pages
...222, and Johnson's Works, v. 240. Johnson, in his Life of Pope (ib. viii. 274), speaks of Spence as ' a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour." See ante, iv. 10, 74. 1 ' She was the only interpreter of Erse poetry that I could ever find.' Johnson's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 676 pages
...was not very great, and whofa mind was not very powerful. His criticifm, however, was commonly juft ; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience of a cririck without malevolence, who thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...was not very great, and whofa mind was not very powerful. His criticifm, however, was commonly juft; what he thought, he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience of a cririck without malevolence, who thought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 650 pages
...was not very great, and whofe mind was not very powerful. His criticifm, however, was commonly juft; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolnefs and candour. In him Pope had the firft experience of a critick without malevolence, who. thought... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...English " Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...and candour. In him Pope had the first experience / POPE. 527 experience of a critick without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to display... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...English " Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence, who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults ;... | |
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Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just; what he thought, he thought rightly ;... 
