...Gay, Let me like midnight cats, or Collins sing. — CHATTERTON, THOMAS, 1770? February, An Elegy. His diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured,...words out of the common order, seeming to think, with spme later candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry. His lines commonly...

...Gray scharf kritisiert. Collins' Sprache nennt er often harsh, unskilfully laboured and injudisciously selected. He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival; and he puts Ins words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidate for fame (natürlich...

...to the poems of Collins is no bad index to the difference between them. " Collins," says Johnson, " affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of revival...not to write prose is certainly to write poetry." * How different is Goldsmith's treatment of Collins ! He praises the Ode to Evening* Nor did Goldsmith...

...contemporary view oT his work is expressed by Johnson, whose love for the man did not alter his judgment : His diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured,...obsolete when it was not worthy of revival ; and he put words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that not...

...Coliins dichtete. Die Kritik hielt mit ihrer Antwort auf solche Freiheiten nicht zurück. Johnson sagte: His diction was often harsh, unskilfully laboured,...obsolete when it was not worthy of revival/ and he put his words out of the common order, seeming to think, with some later candidates for fame, that...

...harm, unfkilfully laboured, and injudicioully felected. " He affected, fays the Doctor, " the obfolete, when it was not worthy of revival ; and he puts his words out of the " common order, feeming to think, with fome later candidates for fame, that not to " write profe is certainly to write...

...special effect the result is often extremely grating. One rememhers Johnson's remark on Collins' Odes; 'He puts his words out of the common order, seeming...that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry' (quoted hy Leishman, 1956, p. 83). The hest description of the general effect of an Horatian ode remains...

...writer after writer for political unreliability and affectation. Of his friend Collins, he writes, "He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of...out of the common order, seeming to think, with some late candidates for fame, that not to write prose is certainly to write poetry" (ed. Hill 3:341).Johnson's...

...more general pathos. Writing on his poor friend, Collins, Johnson has Gray in mind when he observes: "He affected the obsolete when it was not worthy of...not to write prose is certainly to write poetry." Johnson seems to have so compounded the burden of originality and the problem of style, that he could...