 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the pradtice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and...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 - 1772 - 388 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaflick homage, and brings praife rather as a, tribute than...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion, that look on grandeur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defect where there... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...decline the praftice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled tt> eneomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...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
...this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion, that look on grandeur with updiftinguifhing t*- * reverence, and difcover no defect where... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necefiity : he ceniiders the great as entitled to encor miaflick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...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
...this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders 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, than mortified by the proftitution of his judgement.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion, that look on grandeur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defect: where there... | |
 | 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
...meannefs he never items to decline the practice, or lament the *" neceflity : neceflity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion, that look on grandeur with undiftinguifhlng reverence, and difcover no defect where there... | |
 | 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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Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage ; and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention... 
