...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...