...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 than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not 10 certain that on these occasions his judgment much...

...excellence, intellectual and moral, combined in his mind, with endless variation . . . and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment." The Heroic Stanzas would seem to have been written in an age rather...

...necessity: he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a trihute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgement much...

...undertaken the task of praise he no longer retains shame in himself, nor supposes it in his patron," and is "more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgement": his dedication to The State of Innocence is written "in a strain of...

...lament the necessity: he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled...