 Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is Strange, yet nothing new: Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong; Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.  The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Page 352by James Boswell - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1899 - 440 pages
...skill, packed the whole of Warton's lyrical work into the compass of one cruel copy of verses : '' Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong ; Plirase that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet,... | |
 | Thomas Seccombe - English literature - 1902 - 506 pages
...new-fangled tricks,' the ancient ballads, and the new-old sonnets which he saw springing into recognition : ' Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange yet nothing...new ; Endless labour all along, Endless labour to lie wrong ; Phrase that time has Hung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Tricked in antique ruff and... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 634 pages
...written to ridicule them : but remember that I love the fellow dearly ;— for all I laugh at him. ' Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...that time has flung away ; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.' "—" Anecdotes." he was in earnest"... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 638 pages
...ridicule them : but remember that I love the fellow dearly ; — for all I laugh at him. ' Whercsoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new :...that time has flung away ; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet.' " — " Anecdotes." . 68] WARTON'S... | |
 | Andrew Lang - English literature - 1907 - 584 pages
...too often justify, it must be owned, Johnson's wellknown sarcastic epigram upon them : — Where'er I turn my view, All is strange yet nothing new : Endless...along, Endless labour to be wrong, Phrase that Time hath flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Tricked in antique ruff and bonnet Ode and elegy and sonnet.... | |
 | William S. Walsh - Curiosa - 1909 - 1112 pages
...volume of poems published by Thomas Warton : "Clever fellow, and I like him well enough," he said. Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing new. Endless labor alt along, Endless labor to be wrong ; Phrase that Time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray.... | |
 | William Forbes Gray - English poetry - 1914 - 386 pages
...heart. He also ridiculed his verse because of its archaisms, as appears from the following epigram — Wheresoe'er I turn my view. All is strange, yet nothing...that time has flung away ; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet. 1 Warton, again, had rather a poor... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1917 - 440 pages
...unerring skill, packed the whole of Warton's lyrical work into the compass of one cruel copy of verses : " Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode and elegy and sonnet." But he was prompt to add, "Remember... | |
 | English philology - 1919 - 680 pages
...into English poetry. A classical example is Doctor Johnson's little poem in rebuke of Thomas War ton: Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet." A somewhat similar piece of criticism... | |
 | English philology - 1919 - 690 pages
...into English poetry. A classical example is Doctor Johnson's little poem in rebuke of Thomas Warton: Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...that Time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick M in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode, and elegy, and sonnet." A somewhat similar piece of criticism... | |
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