 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 602 pages
...hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet; he feels what he. remembers...beauty, and enlarged with majefty. : Yet could the author, who appears here to have enjoyed the confidence of Nature, la-' ment the death of queen Mary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 478 pages
...hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he: remembers...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifhed with beauty, and enlarged with majefty. " Yet could the Author, who appears here to have... | |
 | samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...hear Thy voice—my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for 'a. moment the powers of a poet; he feels what he remembers to...image., but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifhed witk beauty, and enlarged with majefty. •Yet could the author, who appears here :to have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 278 pages
...hear Thy voice — my- own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet \ he feels what he remembers...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifhed with beauty, and enlarged with majelty. Yet could the author, who appears here to have... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. * He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before, but be feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1791 - 490 pages
...hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before, but he fee's it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...hear 'I by voice—my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet; he feels what he remembers to...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifhed with beauty, and enlarged with majefty. Yet could the author, who appears here to have... | |
 | 1795 - 846 pages
...He who reads thefe lines enjoys, for a moment, the powers of a poet ; he feels what he bers to hare felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognize» a fairilir image, but meets again amplified and expanded, cmbellifhed with beauty, and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...hear . Thy voice my own affright* me with its echoes. " He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a momenc the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifiied with beauty, and enlarged with majefty." Speaking of the other pieces by Congreve, Johnfon... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. " He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embelli (lied with beauty, and enlarged with majelty. " The ' Birth of the Mufe ' is a miferable fiction.... | |
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He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished... 
