...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...