...faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons." Gray, too, had a notion that he could not write but at certain times or at...learning and of virtue wishes him to have been superior." 6 Now Johnson had been used to turn out all sorts of literature at the call of hunger and the bookseller,...

...faculties, or exert his virtues, will soon make himself superior to the seasons." Gray, too, had a notion that he could not write but at certain times or at happy moments—"a fantastick foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him...

...which was just beginning to be heard, was to Johnson merely contemptible. The poet Gray, for example, " had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments—a fantastic foppery to which my kindness for a man oflearning and virtue wishes him to have...

...which was just beginning to be heard, was to Johnson merely contemptible. The poet Gray, for example, " had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not write but at certain times, or at happy moments—a fantastic foppery to which my kindness for a man of learning and virtue wishes him to have...

...rudely 23 and then correct them, but labored every line as it arose in the train of composition; and he had a notion not very peculiar, that he could not...write but at certain times, or at happy moments; a fantastic foppery, to which my kindness for a man of learning and of virtue wishes him to have been...

..." the deformities of the Life of Gray." He stigmatized it as "a fantastic foppery" in Gray, that " he had a notion, not very peculiar, that he could...not write but at certain times or at happy moments." The notion was, indeed, " not very peculiar," as it has been held from the beginning, by probably nine...