| James Boswell - 1786 - 552 páginas
...222, and Johnson's Works, v. 240. Johnson, in his Life of Pope (ib. viii. 274), speaks of Spence as ' a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just; what he thought he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 716 páginas
...English " Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however was commonly just ; ' what he .thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 464 páginas
...the English Odytscy a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just. What he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 páginas
...English " Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 546 páginas
...the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however was commonly just ; what he thought, he thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 páginas
...English " Odyssey" a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 páginas
...the English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time prelector of poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just. What he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 518 páginas
...the degree of MA Nov. 2, 1727; and in that year became first known to the learned world by " An Essay on Pope's Odyssey ; in which some particular beauties...work are considered, in two parts," 12mo. "On the F.nglish Odyssey, says Dr. Johnson, " a criticism was published by Spence, a man whose learning was... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1812 - 348 páginas
...English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford c ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just. What he thought, he thought rightly : and his remarks were recommended by his coolness... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1816 - 522 páginas
...degree of MA Nov. 2, L727 ; and in that year became first known to the learned world by " An Essay on Pope's Odyssey ; in which some particular beauties...mind was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by bis coolness... | |
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