 had a notion not very peculiar that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments ; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior.  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 6811927Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...I7th. MA LONE. 4 Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d edit. p. 28. [Aug. 16, 1773]. BOSWELL. 1 ' Gray had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.'... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior, GRAY's Poetry is now to be considered ; and I hope not to be looked on as an enemy to his name, if... | |
 | Thomas Warton - English poetry - 1802 - 396 pages
...youth and laughter all; 280 With whom each field's a paradiie, And all the globe a bow'r of bliis ! " peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy " moments : a fantaftic foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man "of learning and virtue wiflies him to have been... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...moments; a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for n man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior. GRA Y's Poetry is now to be considered... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1805 - 272 pages
...not too interesting to literary men, not fully, and very particularly to relate ? CHAPTER XI. CRAY had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery!—The author that thinks himself weather-bound will find, with a little help from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1806 - 418 pages
...rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arofe in the train of compofitton ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantaftick foppery, to which my kindnefs for a man of learning and virtue wifhes him to have been fuperior.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 494 pages
...rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 628 pages
...rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.... | |
 | English essays - 1810 - 286 pages
...compare •with the above, occurs in the life of Gray; and is as follows: " He," (Gray) had a notion that he could " not write but at certain times; or at happy mo" ments : a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness " for a man of learning and virtue, wishes him... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...rudely, and then correct them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition ; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments ; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness fora man of learning and virtue wishes him to have been superior.... | |
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