The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

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Excerpt from The Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett: With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory NotesIn 1750 he began his Rambler, and carried it on with only tolerable success till 1752. The world has long ago made up its mind on the merits and defects of this periodical, its masculine thought and energetic diction, alternating with disguised commonplace and (as he would have said himself) turgescent tameness - its critical and fictitious papers, often so rich in fancy, and felicitous in expression, mixed with others which exhibit bulk without spirit vast, and are chie¿y remarkable for their bold, bad innovations on that English tongue of which the author was piling up the stan dard Dictionary. Many have dwelt severely on J ohnson's inequalities, without attending to their cause, that was nu questionably the body of death which hung so heavily upon his system, and rendered writing at times a positive torment. Let his fastidious critics remember that he never spent a single day, of which he could say that he was entirely well, and free from pain, and that his spirits were often so depressed, that he was more than once seen on his knees, praying God to pre serve his understanding.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.