 | Oxford essays - 1855
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of poetic diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well.'J His finest paraphrase is that of the 9Oth Psalm, which is not altogether unworthy of the majestic... | |
 | Isaac Watts, David Addison Harsha - 1857 - 514 էջ
...repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction.* It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." These remarks of Johnson have often been controverted, and ably refuted. They are most satisfactorily... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1857 - 874 էջ
...good poetry could not be written upon a religious topic. " It is sufficient for Watts," said he, " to have done better than others, what no man has done well." To introduce polities into poetry is thought to be wrong by many critics, who would think you injured... | |
 | 1858 - 476 էջ
...elegant and copious ; but his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." Such praise from Dr. Johnson is praise indeed, when we remember that the critic's prejudices against... | |
 | 1862 - 838 էջ
...for devotional poetry, as is manifest from his criticisms on Watts. He says that " it is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well." they would be more than human if they did. Occasionally they may compliment each other on their bravery;... | |
 | Henry Herbert Wyatt - 1863 - 254 էջ
...probably the one of which it will be said, as Johnson said of Watts,ll that 'it is sufficient for him to have done better than others what no man has done well.' The Church, as well as the compiler of this volume, is much indebted to the Archdeacon of Cleveland,... | |
 | 1864 - 1196 էջ
...him," said Dr. Johnmo, with true dogmatic stupidity, of the venerated father of English hymnology, " to have done better than others what no man has done well." It is sufficient for the Methodist poet, we may say with greater justice, to lave done better than... | |
 | 1864 - 922 էջ
...him," said Dr. Johnson, with true dogmatic stupidity, of the venerated father of English hymnology, " to have done better than others what no man has done well." It is sufficient for the Methodist poet, we may say with greater justice, to have done better than... | |
 | 1864 - 890 էջ
...him," said Dr Johnson, with true dogmatic stupidity, of the venerated father of English hymnology, " to have done better than others what no man has done well." It is sufficient for the Methodist poet, we may say with greater justice, to have done better than... | |
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But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than... 
