| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaflick homage, and brings praife rather as a, tribute than a gift, more delighted with...grandeur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches. 7 With With his praifes of others... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiflion, that look on gran| deur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defed: where there... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled tt> eneomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed qot certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much rebelled againft his intereft. There are minds... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...eafily fink into fubmiffion, that look on grandeur with updiftinguifhing t*- * reverence, and difcover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...lament the necefiity : he ceniiders the great as entitled to encor miaflick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the proflitution of his. judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift^ more more delighted with the fertility of his invention,...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmimon, that look on grandeur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defeft where there... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...grandeur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defect: where there is elevation of rank and affluence of riches. With his praifes of others and of... | |
| 1793 - 806 pages
...he never fecms to decline the piaflice or lament the ncceffity. He appears to have been ^-^sidighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proftitution of his judgc«:, »hich was probably, like his immorality and his merriment, artificial and conftrained, the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...neceflity : neceflity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...eafily fink into fubmiffion, that look on grandeur with undiftinguifhlng reverence, and difcover no defect where there is elevation of rank and affluence of... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...kind of ceaaneu he never feems to decline the pranire or lament the ncccffity. He appears to have been more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proftitution of his judgratnr, which was probably, like his immorality and his merriment, artificial and conilrained, the... | |
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