 | England - 1831 - 1008 pages
...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 heroic, in spite of William... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1831 - 952 pages
...who thinks proper to try. As, for instance, ' I put my hat upon my head, And walked into the Sirand ; And there I met another man With his hat in his hand.' " On my return to Half-moon-street, I found that Dr. Percy had just heard from his publisher; and with... | |
 | Joseph Cradock - France - 1826 - 312 pages
...that Johnson only meant to attack the metre; but he certainly turned the whole Poem into ridicule. " I put my hat upon my head, And walked into the Strand,...there I met another man With his hat in his hand." Mr. Garrick, in the Postscript of a letter to me, soon afterwards asked me, " Whether I had seen Johnson's... | |
 | 1828 - 332 pages
...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 letter concerning it.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Fore-edge painting - 1828 - 372 pages
...been triumphed over in parodies of which Dr Johnson's stanza is a fair specimen. I pal my bat npoa my head And walked into the Strand. And there I met another man Wn»*u hat wn» io hU hand. Immediately under these lines I will place one of the most justly-admired... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 584 pages
...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 asked him, " Whether he... | |
 | Scotland - 1831 - 1040 pages
...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, ..(... Probation est. And yours is the nobler metre, too — the true English heroic, in spite... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...341. 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 asked him, " Whether he... | |
 | Periodicals - 1833 - 270 pages
...proper to try ; as, for instance," (this he said impromptu,) 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. On another occasion, when criticizing Percy's Reliques at Mr. Reynolds's tea-table, the sage indulged... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 366 pages
...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 a letter to me, soon afterwards asked me, " Whether I had seen Johnson's criticism... | |
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I put my hat upon my head And walked into the Strand, And there I met another man Whose hat was in his hand. 
