 | 1787 - 652 pages
...fimplicity, with no other recommendation : and thofe of this clafs were well ridiculed by Johnfon : " I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And...performance reminds us of Johnfon's lines; yet it is not the worft poem of the kind, that we have perufed : there are, however, no flowers in it that... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1800 - 270 pages
...verses have been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr. Johnson's Stanza is a fair specimen. " I put my hat upon my head, . And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man "Whasc hat was in his hand." Immediately under these lines I will place one of the most justly admired... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 280 pages
...verses have been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr. Johnson's Stanza is a fair specimen. "'1 put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand." Immediately under these lines I will place one of the most justly admired... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1802 - 282 pages
...verses have been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr. Johnson's Stanza is a fair specimen. " I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand." Immediately under these lines I will place one of the most justly admired... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 416 pages
...verses have been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr. Johnson's stanza is a fair specimen. " I put my hat upon my head. And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand." Immediately under these lines I will place one of the most justly admired... | |
 | 1831 - 1008 pages
...this rate as easily as ever Dr Johnson did with his quizzifications of the Percy Reliques — " I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man With his hat in his hand." NORTH. Probalum est. And yours is the nobler metre, too— the true English... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 326 pages
...is the style of prose ? He will not suppose me capable of having in my mind such verses, as " I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the strand ; , And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand." To such specimens it would indeed be a fair and full reply, that these... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...Johnson had given him a lasting offence by parodying the stanzas of the Hermit of Warkworth: . . " I put my hat upon my head, "And walk'd into the Strand, " And there I met another man " With his hat in his hand." I never heard either allude to the circumstance; but I can refer to Garrick's... | |
 | 1828 - 740 pages
...Johnson had given him a lasting offence by parodying the stanzas of the Hermit of Warkworth : " I put my hat upon my head, " And walk'd into the Strand, " And there I met another roan " With his hat in his hand." I never heard either allude to the circumstance ; but I can refer... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...only meant to attack the metre; P . 241. but he certainly turned the whole poem into ridicule. " I put my hat upon my head, And walk'd into the Strand, And there I met another man With his hat in his hand." Mr. Garrick, in the postscript of a letter to Mr. Cradock, soon afterwards... | |
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I put my hat upon my head And walk'd into the strand ; And there I met another man, Whose hat was in his hand. 
