 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 pages
...them, but laboured every line as it arose in the train of composition : and he had a notion not Tery 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 of virtue wishes him to have been... | |
 | William Caldwell Roscoe - Bookbinding - 1860 - 576 pages
...Dr. Johnson, who made poetry by pure effort of diligence, as a man casts up his ledger, observes : " He had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could...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."... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1863 - 610 pages
...called " the deformities of the Life of Gray." lie stigmatized it as "a fantastic foppery" in Gray, that "he had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could...not write but at certain times or at happy moments." The notion was, indeed, " not very peculiar," as it has been held from the beginning, by probably nine... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 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 of virtue wishes him to have been... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1878 - 504 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 I... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 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 - 1886 - 516 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 598 pages
...i/th. MALONE. * Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d edit. p. 28. [Aug. 16, 1773]. BosWELL. 3 '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.'... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 570 pages
...17th. MA LONE. * Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, 3d edit. p. 28. [Aug. 16, 1773]. BosWEL1_ * '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 - 1890 - 506 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 fan1 tastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learn• j ing and of virtue wishes him to... | |
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