...(j$[hen he pleasesjeast, it can only be said that a good design was ill directed._J His translations of Northern and Welsh Poetry deserve praise ; the...character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the 10 common reader ; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all...

...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...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...

...longer than it is"—and hear the reader joining Johnson in praising Gray's most famous poem—"In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader." We feel with readers the repellent grossness of Pope's and Swift's physical imagery— "such as every...

...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...common sense of readers, uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...

...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...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning must finally be decided...

...quotes the following appraisal of Gray by Dr. Johnson — certainly no friend of solitary brooding: "In the character of his Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader . . . The Churchyard abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to...

...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...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of suhtility and the dogmatism of learning, must finally be decided...

...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;...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtilty and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...

...Elegy Wtitren in a Country Churchyards an example of genuine achievement: in the characrer of [Gray's] Elegy I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by the common sense of readers uncorrupred with lirerary prejudices, afrer all the refinements of subtility and the dogmatism of learning,...

...isolate the issue to be discussed here. In his Lives of the English Poets, Dr Johnson famously declared: 'I rejoice to concur with the common reader; for by...common sense of readers uncorrupted with literary prejudices, after all the refinements of subtlety and the dogmatism of learning, must be finally decided...