 For this reason he kept his pieces very long in his hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The only poems which can be supposed to have been written with such regard to the times as might hasten their publication, were the two satires of '...  The Popular Educator - Page 1821856Full view - About this book
 | French examination papers - 1881 - 322 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had...hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. Johnson. VII. Idioms. (a) Traduisez en anglais : Ne vous avancez pas trop dans cette affaire. De l'aveu... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...to himself. He examined lines ana words with minute, and punctilious observation, and retouched ewry part with indefatigable diligence, Till he had left nothing to be forgiven. For tins reason he kept his pieces very Jong in his hands, while he considered and reconsidered them. The... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1882 - 686 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. 4. His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true. His... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had...hasten their publication, were the two satires of ' Thirty- eight ; ' of which Dodsley told me, that they were brought to him by the author, that they... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. ... It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness, elegance, or vigor. Pope had,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. ... It will seldom be found that he altered without adding clearness, elegance, or vigor. Pope had,... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and v/ords with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. 4. His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true. His... | |
 | David Hume - Philosophers - 1888 - 486 pages
...He examined," says Johnson, ' lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. . . . His declaration that his care for his works ceased at their publication was not strictly true.... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 pages
...none to himself He examined lines and words with minute and punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had left nothing to be forgiven. "Of genius — that power which constitutes a poet; that quality without which judgment is cold and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...none to himself. He examined lines and words with minute and 30 punctilious observation, and retouched every part with indefatigable diligence, till he had...to have been written with such regard to the times an might hasten their publiJOHNSON'S LIFE OF POPE. 89 cation, were the two satires of Thirty-eight;... | |
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