 Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet...  The Port Folio - Page 711808Full view - About this book
 | Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pages
...decided all claim to poetical honours. The ' Church-yard abounds with images which find a ' mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which ' every...returns an echo. The four stanzas ' beginning, yet even those banes, are to me origi' nal: I have never seen the notion in any other ' place; yet he I hat... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 410 pages
...honours. The " Church-yard" abounds with images which find a mirrour in every mind, and with senti« ments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas,...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him. * Lord Orford used to assert, that Gray " never wrote any... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1816 - 674 pages
...What is the judgment of Johnson on the same production ? " It abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo." We shall conclude with an extract from this calumniated writer, which with singular felicity comprehends... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...numbers matchlessly melodious. " It abounds," even Johnson admits, " with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo."-—" Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to praise him." A complete edition... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1819 - 364 pages
...fir.ally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning " Yei even these bones" are to me original : I have never seen the notions in any other place ; yet... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 406 pages
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The " Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame, and useless to j praise him. LYTTELTON. GEORGE LYTTELTON, the son of sir Thomas Lyttelton,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 412 pages
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The "Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...bones," are to me original : I have never seen the motions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 404 pages
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The "Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...bones," are to me original : I have never seen the motions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 584 pages
...be decided all claim to poetical honours. The ' Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...notions in any other place ; yet he that reads them here pursuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame,... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The 'Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every...returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning ' Yet even tbese bones,' are to me original: I have never seen the notions in any other place; yet he that reads... | |
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