...wrote the famous words which almost constitute a palinode to the whole of the rest of his notice : " In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honour. The '...

...agery is preserved, perhaps often improved; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to | concur...readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all i the refinements of subtility and the dogImatism of learning, must be finally de(cided all claim to...

...unlike Addison's when he approved the common verdict of the beauty of Gray's Elegy. "For 1 Rambler, 152. by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary...dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claims to poetical honors."1 Johnson held very strongly to many of the literary principles which we...

...imagery is preserved, perhaps often improved ; but the language is unlike the language of other poets. In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The...

...reading public into highbrows, lowbrows, and middlebrows, posed problems never envisaged by Dr. Johnson.) In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The...

...Gray Johnson says that he prefers Gray's life to any of his works but then goes on to exempt this one: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. The...

...poems, the Doctor had been ready to praise. Of the Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard he wrote, "I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honors." Between...

...of his panegyric thus functions as symptomatic discourse, as a commentary on the text-milieu itself: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The Church-yard...

...symptomatically to register the full force and resonance of the word "common" in eighteenth-century discourse: In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of suhtility and the dogmatism of learning, must finally be decided all claim to poetical honours. The...

...Dickens and a pathology of the mid-Victorian reading public Helen Small In the character of [Gray's] Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader;...literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided all claim to poetical honours. Samuel...