 | 1847 - 610 sider
...unworthy of notice. The three works, selected as the gems of Pope's collection, arc the " Essay on Criticism," the " Rape of the Lock," and the " Essay...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 - 1864 - 316 sider
...unworthy of notice. The three works, selected as the gems of Pope's collection, are the ' Essay on Criticism,' the ' Rape of the Lock,' and the ' Essay...substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication- table, of commonplaces the most mouldy with which criticism has baited its rat-traps... | |
 | 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
...unworthy of notice. The three works, selected as the gems of Pope's collection, are the ' Essay on Criticism,' the ' Rape of the Lock,' and the ' Essay...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."... | |
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Essay on Man.' On the first, which (with Dr. Johnson's leave) is the feeblest and least interesting of Pope's writings, being substantially a mere versification, like a metrical multiplication- table, of commonplaces the most mouldy with which criticism... 
