 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...I wrote them. There is furely reafon to fufpecl: that he pleafed himfelf as well as his audience j and that thefe, like the harlots of other men, had...poets, very frequent ufe of Mythology, and fometimes conne&s religioR and fable too clofely, without diftinction* He defcends to difpl'ay his knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...when I wrote them. There is furely reafon to fufpedt that he pleafed himfelf as well as his audience ; and that thefe, like the harlots of other men, had...a lefs generous and fplendid kind. He makes, like 298 DRYDE N. like almoft all other poets, very frequent ufe of Mythology, and fometimes connects religion... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...I wrote them. There is furely reafon to fufpect that he pleated himfelf as well as his .audience j and that thefe^ like •the harlots of other men,...his approbation, He had fometimes faults of a lefs ge* nerous and fplendid kind. He makes, like almoft all other poets, very frequent vtfe of Mythology,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...pien, had his love, though not his approbation.. j He had fometimes faults of a lefs generous an<J fplendid kind. He makes, like almoft all other poets,...fometimes connects religion and fable too clofely without diftinction* He defcends to difplay his knowledge with pedantick oftentation; as when, in tranflating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...when I wrote them. There is furely reafon to fufpect that he pleafed himfelf as well as his audience ; and that thefe, like the harlots of other men, had...his approbation. '• He had fometimes faults of a left generous an<J fplendid kind. He makes, like almoft all other poets, very frequent ufc of mythology,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...I wrote them." There is furely reafon to fufpeft that he pieafed himfelf as well as his audience ; and that thefe, like the harlots of other men, had...almoft all other poets, very frequent ufe of mythology, U 3 and and fometimes connefts religion and fable too clofely without diftinftion. He defcends to difplay... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1791 - 608 pages
...in on either fide. " The abyfs of un-ideal [emptinefs] vacancy. u Thefe, like [many other harlots,] the harlots of other men, had his love though not his approbation. " He [fometimes difplays] dejcends to difplay his knowledge with pedantick oftentation. " French words which... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...I wrote " them." There is furely reafon to fufpect that he pleafed himfelf as well as his audience; and that thefe, like the harlots of other men, had...fometimes connects religion and fable too clofely without diftinction. He defcends to difplay his knowledge with pedatltick oftentation ; as when, in tranflating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...fufpect that he pleafed himfelf as well as his audience ; and that thefe, like the harlots of other other men, had his love, though not his approbation....fometimes connects religion and fable too clofely, without diftinction. He defcends to difplay his knowledge with pedantick orientation ; as when, in tranflating... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...wrote " them." There is furely reafon to fufpect that he pleafed himfelf as well as his audience ; and that thefe, like the harlots of other men, had...fometimes connects religion and fable too clofely without diftinction. He defcends to difplay his knowledge with pedantick oftentation ; as when, in tranflating... | |
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There is surely reason to suspect that he pleased himself as well as his audience ; and that these, like the harlots of other men, had his love, though not his approbation. He had sometimes faults of a less generous and splendid kind. 
