 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 526 pages
...when, after much blankverse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: " Now, Muse, let's sing of rats" And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived 4 We happened to He this night at the inn at Henley, where Shenstone... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 238 pages
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: " Now, Muse, let's sing of rats." And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 508 pages
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: *' Now, Muse, let's sing of rats" And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived 7 " He too often n;akes use of the abstract for the concrete."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...Muse, let'» sing of rait. 1 Daughter to Matthew William Burt, etq, governor of St. CUristophw'». 44 And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...the reader, perceived that the word had originally beeu mice, and had been altered to rat» as more dignified." " This passage," adds Mr. Boswell, " does... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 622 pages
...Muse, let's bin;; of rats, ' Daughter to Matthew William Burr, esq. governor of St. Christopher's. " And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who sryly overlooked, the reader, perceived that the word had originally been mice, and had been altered... | |
 | Biography - 1814 - 510 pages
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: ' Now Muse, let's sing of rats.'/ And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...company, who slyly overlooked the reader, perceived that thjj word had originally been mice, and had been altered to rats as more dignified." "This passage,"... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 pages
...after imich blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : i " Now, Muse, let's sing of rats." And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 pages
...when, after much blank verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats. And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered to rats, as more dignified.* • Such is this little laughable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 376 pages
...after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus: " Now, Muse, let's sing of ratt." And what increased the ridicule was, that one of the company, who slily overlooked the reader, perceived that the word had been originally mice, and had been altered... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - Poets, Scottish - 1822 - 430 pages
...much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph tbus — Now, Muse ! let's sing of rats : — and what increased the ridicule was, that one of the...to rats as more dignified." " This passage," adds Boswel], " does not appear in the printed work ; PART 5.] o Dr. Grainger, or some of his friends, it... | |
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Langton's having told me, that this poem, when read in manuscript at sir Joshua Reynolds's, had made all the assembled wits burst into a laugh, when, after much blank-verse pomp, the poet began a new paragraph thus : Now, Muse, let's sing of rats. 
