 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 350 lehte
...thing is done. Dr. Johnson said the last word on this sort of composition when he demolished Ossian: "Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it." In fact there is in all this literature a double misunderstanding, as must be pretty clear from what... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1913 - 334 lehte
...thing is done. Dr. Johnson said the last word on this sort of composition when he demolished Ossian: "Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it." In fact there is in all this literature a double misunderstanding, as must be pretty clear from what... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 lehte
...kein Lob entlocken konnten,178) so zollte er den Macphersonschen Gesängen seine bekannte Verachtung: A man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.179) Von" Anfang an 170) Remarks upon Cato, S 5. l71) L. II, 148. 172) Letters II, 440. »9) BJ... | |
 | James Boswell - 1917 - 612 lehte
...is discovered in an old man, people will shrug up their shoulders, and say, "His memory is going.'" Sir Joshua Reynolds communicated to me the following...stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.' He said, 'A man should pass a part of his time with the laughers, by which means any thing ridiculous... | |
 | Leonard Bacon - 1923 - 312 lehte
...matter in this tale, though with some fitness She played the part of the State's banner witness [108] Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it. Doctor Johnson. 11 exercoit extremement bien sa charge quand il n'avait rien a faire. Madame de Lafayette.... | |
 | Harry Levin - 1941 - 276 lehte
...Dr. Johnson, when he said of James Macpherson's earlier attempt to revive the spirit of Finn MacCool: "Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it." The differences in mood between Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are underlined by the contrast between the... | |
 | James Buchan - 2009 - 468 lehte
...Tibullus combined with the majesty of Virgil. No doubt Dr Johnson had that sort of passage in mind when he said: 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.'80 In his Critical Dissertation, Blair adopted the four-stage history of the development of society... | |
 | Northrop Frye - 2004 - 588 lehte
...37 [Boswell's Life of Johnson, ed. GB Hill and LF Powell, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1934), 4:183: "Johnson thought the poems published as translations...stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.'"] 38 [A reference to the final sentence of the Defence of Poetry, in Shelley's Poetry and Prose, ed.... | |
 | James Boswell - 2008 - 1024 lehte
...enjoyment of hope, — the high superiority of rank, without the anxious cares of government, — and a great degree of power, both from natural influence...particulars: Johnson thought the poems published as translatioris from Ossian, had so little merit, that he said, 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for... | |
 | Robert H. Deming - 1997 - 456 lehte
...of Finn MacCool, of the Ossianic poems of James Macpherson, human prejudice spoke with Dr. Johnson: 'Sir, a man might write such stuff for ever, if he would abandon his mind to it.' 703 312. William Troy, review, Partisan Review 1939 'Notes on Finnegans Wake', Partisan Review, vi... | |
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I recollect only — the enjoyment of hope, — the high superiority of rank, without the anxious cares of government, — and a great degree of power, both from natural influence wisely used, and from the sanguine expectations of those who look forward... 
