 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 600 pages
...came out, and Johnson is * Horace Walpole to Mann, March 29, 1745. made to say of Gray, ' Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere : he was dull in a new way, and thsit made many people think him great : he was a mechanical poet.' In 1 79 1 AValpole writes, ' After... | |
 | Literature - 1863 - 652 pages
...but one woman, and she wns his mother, but this love was pathetic and exemplary ; and, finally, ho shut himself up, and eschewed general society. This...fellow — dull in company, dull in his closet, dull every way; he was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great." Now the poet, in his... | |
 | William Clark Russell - Authors, English - 1871 - 550 pages
...Boswell, on the latter demurring to the epithet ••dull " as applied to such a poet, " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great. He was a mechanical poet."— ED. 240 Thomas Gray — David Garrick. day Society,... | |
 | 1873 - 852 pages
...and might appear dull in company, but surely he was not dull in poetry ? " JOHNSON : " Sir, lit' was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere....He was dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great. " ' 5 Nor did Sterne fare much better. ' It having been observed that there was little... | |
 | 1873 - 808 pages
...and might appear dull in company, but surely he was not dull in poetry ? " JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere....He was dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great. " ' * Nor did Sterne fare much better. 'It having been observed that there was Tittle... | |
 | 1873 - 822 pages
...but surely he was not dull in poetry ? " JOHNSON : " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his eloset, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great. " ' * Nor did Sterne fare much better. 'It having been observed that there was little... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - Conduct of life - 1875 - 416 pages
...and little men, it is very easy to do all the rest." He called Gray " a dull fellow." " Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere....He was dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great." Talking of Sterne, he said, " Nothing odd will last long. Tristram Shandy did not... | |
 | Authors, English - 1880 - 556 pages
...of his pet aversions. Boswell denied that Gray was dull in poetry. "Sir," replied Johnson, "he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great. He was a mechanical poet." He proceeded to say that there were only two good... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 pages
...Trick'd in antique ruff and bonnet, Ode and elegy and sonnet." "Sir," said Johnson of Gray, "he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made people think him great. He was a mechanical poet." / "Would not you, sir," inquired Boswell, "start... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1889 - 464 pages
...in company ; but surely he ivas not dull in poetry." JOHNSON. " Sir, he was dull in company, ilull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way. ant' that made many people think him GREAT. He was a mechanical poet. He then repeated some ludicrous... | |
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Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people call him great. 
