 Have you seen the Works of two young Authors, a Mr. Warton and a Mr. Collins, both writers of Odes? it is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable Man, and one the counterpart of the other. The first has but little Invention, very poetical choice...  Dictionary of National Biography - Stran 365uredili: - 1887Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | William Collins - 1854 - 430 strani
...work of two young authors, a Mr. Warton and Mr. Collins, both writers of Odes? It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the...antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." arrival, his uncle died,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 strani
...two young authors, a Mr. [Joseph] Warton and Mr. Collins, both writers of odes? It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the...fine fancy, modelled upon the antique; a bad ear; a great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1854 - 632 strani
...delivered his opinion : — ' It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and the one the counterpart of the other. The first has but...upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words VOL. xciv. NO. CLXXXVII. D and and images with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years... | |
 | John Forster - 1854 - 512 strani
...generally with Thomas Warton, as " both writers of odes ; " and continues, " it is odd enough, ' ' but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the counterpart of the other . . . " They both deserve to last Borne years, but will not." Gray to Wharton, Dec. 1746. Worb, Ui.... | |
 | William Collins, Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith - 1860 - 422 strani
...work of two young authors, a Mr. War ton and Mr. Collins, both writers of Odes? It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the...antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They both deserve to last some years, but will not," In 1748, he wrote the Ode... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1861 - 660 strani
...young authors, a Mr. [Joseph] TVarton and Mr. Collins, both writers of odes ? It is odd enough, but each Is the half of a considerable man, and one the...second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique ; a ba*i earj a great variety of words and images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to last some... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1866 - 654 strani
...II in«. both writers of ode« ? 11 b odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and Ml the counterpart of the other. The first has but little...second, a fine fancy, modelled upon the antique ; a KH ear; a great variety of words and Images, with no choice at all. They both deserve to lav. some... | |
 | John Dennis - 1876 - 466 strani
...Collins, for he classed Coilins and Warton together as writers of Odes, and said, "It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the counterpart of the other. They both deserve to last some years, but will not." Gibbon called Oxford the head-quarters of " port... | |
 | Thomas Gray - 1883 - 596 strani
...work of two young authors, a Mr. Warton and Mr. Collins, both writers of Odes ? It is odd enough, but each is the half of a considerable man, and one the...expression, and a good ear; the second a fine fancy, mocblled upon the antique, a bad ear, great variety of words and images, and no choice at all. They... | |
 | 1895 - 734 strani
...who, according to Gray, formed Thomas Warton's natural complement. ' Each,' he says in his letters, ' is the half of a considerable man, and one the counterpart of the other. The first (Collins) has but little invention, is very poetical, has much choice of expression, and a good ear.... | |
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