 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...His art and his struggle are too visible and there is too little appearance of ease and nature. . . In the character of his ' Elegy,' I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claims to poetical honors. The... | |
 | John N. Crawford - Authors, English - 1903 - 442 pages
...of the Poets" and express himself critically, while sharply censuring Gray's other poems he said : In the character of his " Elegy " I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claims to poetical honors. " The... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1903 - 190 pages
...Knowledge. Cp. No. 48. 3. 36. The curfew tolls the knell of parting day " In the character of his Klegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - Authors, English - 1904 - 458 pages
...common-sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...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... | |
 | John Henry Fowler - English poetry - 1904 - 516 pages
...received with enthusiasm ; and even Dr. Johnson for once refrains from qualifying his praise of Gray: ' ' In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 pages
...sure of his regard and reverence, whether it is to his liking or not. Of the famous Elegy he says : ' I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors.' * Sincerity... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...commonly attains to think right.' And again, speaking of Gray, he states the doctrine boldly and fully: 'In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours.' His... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudice, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.' Yet while admitting that the qualities which give a poem the power to find an echo in every bosom are... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - English poetry - 1911 - 792 pages
...uncritical, and unsophisticated reader ? He may even venture to follow Dr. Johnson when he says of Gray : ' In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudice, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided... | |
 | Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...agery is preserved, perhaps often improved; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors. The [no Church-yard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments... | |
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I rejoice to concur with the common reader ; for by the common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The Churchyard... 
