 Spring has something poetical, both in the language and the thought ; but the language is too luxuriant, and the thoughts have nothing new. There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives, derived from substantives, the termination of participles...  Nugae metricae - Page 85by William Wyndham Grenville Baron Grenville - 1824 - 89 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...from substantives, the termination of participles; such as the cultured plain, the dahitd bank; bus I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring. The morality is natural, but too stale; the conclusion is pretty. The poem " On the Cat" was doubtless... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...adjectives derived from substantives, the termination of participles; such as the cultured plain, the dah'nd bank; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring. The morality is natural, but too Stale ; the conclusion is pretty. The poem " On the Cat"wns doubtless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 408 pages
...thought; but the language is too luxuriant, and the thoughts have nothing new. There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived from substantives...the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring. The morality is natural, but too stale ; the conclusion is pretty. The poem " On the Cat" was doubtless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 622 pages
...thought ; but the language is too luxuriant, and the thoughts have nothing new. There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived from substantives...the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring. The morality is natural, but too stale; the conclusion is pretty. The poem On the Cat was doubtless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 404 pages
...thought; but the language is too luxuriant, and the thoughts have nothing new. There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived from substantives...sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the homed Spring. The morality is natural, but too stale ; the conclusion is pretty. • The poem " On... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 494 pages
...derived from substantives, the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the ofowVdbank; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring. The morality is natural, but too stale ; the conclusion is pretty. made when it cannot easily be found.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 622 pages
...substantives the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but 1 was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring, The morality is natural, but too stale; I he conclusion is pretty. The poem On the Cat was doubtless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 366 pages
...derived from, substantives the termination of participles ; such as the cultured plain, the daiaied bank ; but I was sorry to see, in the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring. The morality is natural, but too stale ; the conclusion is pretty. The poem On the Cat was doubtless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1819 - 364 pages
...practice of giv ing to adjectives derived iVom substantives the termination of participles ; luchsas the cultured plain, the daisied bank ; but I was sorry...the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied spring. The morality is natural, but too stale ; the conclusion is pretty. The poem tin Hie Cat was doubtless... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 404 pages
...thought; but the language is too luxuriant, and the thoughts have nothing new. There has of late arisen a practice of giving to adjectives derived from substantives...the lines of a scholar like Gray, the honied Spring. The morality is natural, but too stale ; the conclusion is pretty. The poem " On the Cat" was doubtless... | |
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