 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 544 sider
...decisions which had passed, but little questioned, from mouth to mouth. "The Essay on Criticism," he says, "is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings,...substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of common-places the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 574 sider
...in the direction of disparagement with De Quincey. The ' Essay on Criticism ' he pronounces to be " the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings,...substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of common-places the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps.... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 668 sider
...superficial, a pedant and a master of pedantry ! Get •iown, Schlosser, this moment; or let me get out. Pope, by far the most important writer, English or...versification, like a metrical multiplication-table, of common places tho most mouldy with which criticism has baite J its rat-traps; since nothing is said... | |
 | 1877 - 630 sider
...splendour of illustration, and propriety of digression.' On the other hand, De Quincey considers it 'the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings,...substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of commonplaces the most mouldy, with which criticism has baited her rat-traps.'... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 642 sider
...prosody. ' The Essay,' says De Quincey, 'is a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of commonplaces the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps.' It required very little reading of the French textbooks to find the maxims which Pope has here strung... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 636 sider
...prosody. 'The Essay,' says De Ouincey, 'is a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of commonplaces the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps.' It required very little reading of the French textbooks to find the maxims which Pope has here strung... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1881 - 626 sider
...prosody. 'The Essay,' says De Ouincey, 'is a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of commonplaces the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps.' It required very little reading of the French textbooks to find the maxims which Pope has here strung... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - 478 sider
...splendour of illustration, and propriety of digression." De Quincey, on the other hand, thought it "the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings,...substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of commonplaces the most mouldy with which criticism has baited her rat-traps."... | |
 | Mark Pattison - 1889 - 460 sider
...Essay on Man. Looking at its contents, its value to us is little or none. De Quincey said of it—' It is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings,...mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps. The maxims have no order or logical dependency, and are generally so vague as to mean nothing.' This... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 sider
...decisions which had passed, but little questioned, from mouth to mouth. "The Essay on Criticism," he says, "is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings,...substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication table, of common-places the most mouldy "with which criticism has baited its rat-traps.... | |
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A false abstract is given, or a false impression, of any one amongst his brilliant works that is noticed at all ; and a false sneer, a sneer irrelevant to the case, at any work dismissed by name as unworthy of notice. The three works selected as the gems... 
