 | 1831 - 652 pages
...forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. • The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, • has not wit ' enough to keep it sweet ;' then, after a pause, ' it has not vital' ity enough to preserve it from putrefaction.' Mannerism is pardonable, and is sometimes even... | |
 | 1834 - 498 pages
...forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet ;" then, after a pause, "...vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction." THE SKY-LARK. WHITHER away, companion of the sun, So high tins laughing morn ? are those soft clouds... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - Bible - 1840 - 644 pages
...forge.' Sometimes Juhnson translated aloud. ' The Rehearsal,' he said, very unjustly, ' has not wit enough to keep it sweet;' then, after a pause, 'it...from putrefaction.' "Mannerism is pardonable, and sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural. Few readers, for example, would... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1844 - 372 pages
...forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet ;" then, after a pause, "...vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction." The characteristic faults of his style are so familiar, and have been so often burlesqued, that it... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. "The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit of popularity, and the most absolute faculties to crasyon the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. " The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet ;" then, after a pause, "...vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction." The characteristic faults of his style are so familiar, and have been so often burlesqued, that it... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 656 pages
...forge.' Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. ' The Rehearsal,' he said very unjustly, ' has not wit enough to keep it sweet;' then after a pause, ' it...vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction.' " Such lines as these ; — " I put my hat upon ray head And walked into the Strand, And there I met... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1854 - 430 pages
...the forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. "The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, "has not wit enough to keep it sweet ;" then, after a pause, "...agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural. Pew readers, for example, would be willing to part with the mannerism of Milton or of Burke. But a... | |
 | Cornelius Van Santvoord - American essays - 1856 - 470 pages
...Johnson translated aloud. 'The Kehearsal,' he said, 'has not wit enough to keep it sweet ; ' then added, after a pause, ' It has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction.' " The strength of the former version as compared with the latter is obvious enough, and yet the famous... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...forge." Sometimes Johnson translated aloud. "The Rehearsal," he said, very unjustly, " has not wit enough to keep it sweet ;" then, after a pause, "...sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vieions, is natural. Few readers, for example, would be willing to part with the mannerism of Milton... | |
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Rehearsal" he said very unjustly," has not wit enough to keep it sweet;" then, after a pause, " it has not vitality enough to preserve it from putrefaction. 
