...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which [90 we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should...

...of Cowley (Lives I. 58) ; Life of Dryden (Lives I. 420). whenever they occur, draw that attention to themselves which they should transmit to things. Those...attempted ; we had few elegances or flowers of speech. 4. Goldsmith1: It is indeed amazing, after what has been done by Dryden, Addison, and Pope, to improve...

...defeat the purpose of the poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, 1 Letter to Richard West, April 4, 1742 (Letters 1. 98). 'Life of Cowley (Lives 1. 58) ; Life of Dryden...

...defeat the purpose of the poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions we do not easily receive strong impressions or delightful...images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers, 1 Letter to Richard West, April 4, 1742 (Letters I. 98). POETIC DICTION IN MODERN TIMES whenever they...

...remote defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful...themselves which they should transmit to things." In the light of this just critical ruling how many of our fashionable phrases stand condemned beyond...

...domestic use, and free from . O" . — I the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. \ . . Those happy combinations of words which distinguish...speech, the roses had not yet been plucked from the brambles, or different colours had not been joined to enliven one another.' Johnson_is amplifying and...

...the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Those happy combinations of words which distinguish...from prose had been rarely attempted : we had few elegancies or flowers of speech." 1 Such was Johnson's statement of the doctrine, afterwards so vigorously...

...grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. . . . Those happy combinations of words which distinguish...rarely attempted ; we had few elegances or flowers of speech."2 Gray had likewise stated that "the language of the age is never the language of poetry";4...

...remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful...draw that attention on themselves which they should convey to things. " Those happy combinations of words which distinguish poetry from prose, had been...

...purpose of a poet. From those sounds Which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not ^asily receive strong impressions, or delightful images ;...Those happy combinations of words which distinguish 20 poetry from prose, had been rarely attempted ; we had few elegances or flowers of speech, the roses...