Note 34
From Truants & Rebels in "A Preface To 18th Century Poetry"

Lives, i. 460. Johnson does not express either approval or disapproval. Hobbes would certainly have disapproved. He has some strong words about 'the ambitious obscurity of expressing more than is perfectly conceived' ('Answer to Davenant', Spingarn, ii. 63).

Note 34 From Truants & Rebels in "A Preface To 18th Century Poetry"

Note 34
From Truants & Rebels in "A Preface To 18th Century Poetry"