 | Joseph SPENCE - 1858 - 488 стор.
...published. Dr. Johnson has been thought to speak with prejudice of Spence when he says that he was " a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful;" but I must in candour acknowledge that there is no appealing from this judgment: and nothing can be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1865 - 426 стор.
...English "Odyssey" a criticism was published k by Spenee, at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford ; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...thought rightly; and his remarks were recommended by Lis coolness and candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critic without malevolence, who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 стор.
...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...candour. In him Pope had the first experience of a critick without malevolence who thought it as much his duty to display beauties as expose faults; who... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 стор.
...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...was not very powerful. His criticism, however, was com- , monly just ; what he thought, he thought rightly ; and his / remarks were recommended by his... | |
 | James Boswell - 1891 - 566 стор.
...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...powerful. His criticism, however, was commonly just ; what lie thought he thought rightly ; and his remarks were recommended by his coolness and candour.' See... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - 1896 - 316 стор.
...English Odyssey a criticism was published by Spence, I at that time Prelector of Poetry at Oxford; a man whose learning was not very great, and whose...recommended by his coolness and candour. In him Pope had I the first experience of a critic without malevolence, who I thought it as much his duty to display... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall, Robert Sangster Rait - 1901 - 296 стор.
...bibulosity. Though his criticism is sensible, Dr. Johnson was probably not wrong in pronouncing him 'a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful. ' A scholar of a more serious order was Robert Lowth (son of the well-known commentator, William Lowth),... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 582 стор.
...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 powerful7. 1 ' Of Fenton's four books, the MSS. of three are preserved in the Brit Mus. The ist and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 стор.
...notes. He succeeded Thomas Warton as professor of poetry at Oxford. Johnson has described him as " a man whose learning was not very great, and whose mind was not very powerful " — but Spence's anecdotes of Pope and his circle, although not published until 1820, were used by... | |
 | Alfred Denis Godley - 1908 - 356 стор.
...: Spence was Professor of Poetry too, and afterwards of Modern History : "a man," says Dr. Johnson, "whose learning was not very great and whose mind was not very powerful," yet according to one of his friends "a complete scholar." It is perhaps significant that one finds... | |
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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 ;... 
