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Herbert Croft

 

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Herbert Croft : Love and Madness. A story too true. In a series of letters between parties, whose names would perhaps be mentioned, were they less known, or less lamented

'Read Fazio - Love and madness. & some of Rienzi - work - in the evening finish the antiquary'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Mary Godwin      Print: Book

  

Herbert Croft : Life of Young

'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style. When I mentioned this to a very eminent literary character [Edmund Burke], he opposed me vehemently, exclaiming, "No, no, it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength". This was an image so happy, that one might have thought he would have been satisfied with it; but he was not. And setting his mind again to work, he added, with exquisite felicity, "It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Edmund Burke      Print: Book

  

Herbert Croft : Life of Young

'[Croft's 'Life of Young, adapted by Johnson for his 'Life'] has always appeared to me to have a considerable share of merit, and to display a pretty successful imitation of Johnson's style. When I mentioned this to a very eminent literary character [Edmund Burke], he opposed me vehemently, exclaiming, "No, no, it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak without its strength". This was an image so happy, that one might have thought he would have been satisfied with it; but he was not. And setting his mind again to work, he added, with exquisite felicity, "It has all the contortions of the Sybil, without the inspiration".'

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: James Boswell      Print: Book

  

Herbert Croft : [Family Discourses]

'[present at tea on June 12th was] the Reverend Herbert Croft, who, I am afraid, was somewhat mortified by Dr. Johnson's not being highly pleased with some "Family Discourses", which he had printed; they were in too familiar a style to be approved of by so manly a mind'.

Century: 1700-1799     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Johnson      Print: Book

 

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