 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
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 492 pages
...to ridicule them : but remember that I love the fellow dearly, now — 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. ' * " When he parodied the verses of... | |
 | Oswald Doughty - English poetry - 1922 - 488 pages
...to trumpet my name over the world." CHAPTER V THE AUGUSTAN REVIVAL J OHNSON— GOLDSMITH — CRABBE Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...Endless labour all along, Endless labour to be wrong. JOHNSON. I SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) WE remarked in an earlier chapter, that long before the middle... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...351. 6 Nonumque prematur in annum. Let your poem be kept nine years. HORACE— ATS Poetica. 388. 7 II. Sc. 7. L. 174. Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude t labor all along, Endless labor to be wrong: Phrase that Time has flung away; Uncouth words in disarray.... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1923 - 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 new ; / Endless labour all along, I Endless labour to be wrong ; Phrase that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd... | |
 | William Paton Ker - English poetry - 1923 - 168 pages
...is well on its way, and it is recognized by Dr. Johnson as something of a danger and a provocation : Wheresoe'er I turn my view All is strange, yet nothing new, Endless labour all day long, Endless labour to be wrong, Phrase that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd... | |
 | William Paton Ker - English poetry - 1923 - 172 pages
...is well on its way, and it is recognized by Dr. Johnson as something of a danger and a provocation : Wheresoe'er I turn my view All is strange, yet nothing new, Endless labour all day long, Endless labour to be wrong, Phrase that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray, Trick'd... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - English literature - 1924 - 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... | |
 | William Wycherley - English drama - 1924 - 296 pages
...of Ufe. Cf. Dr. Johnson's Lines Written in Ridicule of Certain Poems Published in 7777 : Whereso'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. p. 1 08. Nihil jam eft dictum. This... | |
 | Stuart Curran - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 280 pages
...customary forms of Renaissance poetry as worn by time and overuse and as irrelevant to modern literature: Wheresoe'er I turn my view, All is strange, yet nothing...that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray; Trickt in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode and elegy and sonnet. So in 1777 Johnson greeted the publication... | |
 | Aaron Santesso - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 230 pages
...unification of this material came a new divergence. 3 Varieties of Historical Nostalgia from Gray to Beattie Wheresoe'er I turn my view All is strange, yet nothing...that time has flung away, Uncouth words in disarray: Trickt in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode and elegy and sonnet. — Samuel Johnson, "Lines Written in... | |
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