 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...Being. OMNIPOTENCE cannot be exalted. INFINITY cannot be amplified, PERFECTION cannot be improved. Pino. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art, fhould be funk in general expreffionsj expreffions; becaufe poetry is to fpeak an uniyerfal language. This rule is ftill ftronger... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...precipkes tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to ionic diftant fhore : -. Or, in dark churches, walk among tlie dead ; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more....appropriated. terms of art fhould be funk in general expreffionsi becaufe poetry is to fpeak an univerfal language. This rule is ftill ftronger with regard... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...ill fupply.) In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, Ihipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fliore: Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake...rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art mould be funk In general expreffions, becaufe poetry is to fpeak an univerfal language. This rule is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1794 - 450 pages
...ill fupply.) Jn Breams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant (bore : Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. Itis a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art fhould be funk in general expreflions,... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 806 pages
...fupply. LXXI. In dreams they fearful precipices tread : Or, fhipwrc'ck'd, labour to fome diftant more: Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror and dare fleep no mere. Lixn. The morn they look nn with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news they hear... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 658 pages
...fupply. LXXI. b drums they fearful precipices tread : Or, Ihipwrrck'd, labour to fome diftant more : Or in dark churches walk among the dead: They wake with horror and dare deep no more. LXXII. The mom they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their main-top joyful news... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...short: Or, in dark churches, wadk among the dead ; 'I 'in;/ wake witk horror, and dare deep np mote: It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of ai : shonlc wmk in general expressions, because poetry is to speak an universal langua This rule is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...ill fupply). In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, fhipwreck'd, labour to fome diftant fhore: Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and dare fleep no more. 4 It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated ' terms of art'fhould be funk in general expreffions,... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 416 pages
...• r xxi. In dreams they fearful precipices tread, Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore; Or in dark churches walk among the dead ; They wake with horror, and d. re sleep no more. i.xxn. The morn they look on with unwilling eyes, Till from their maintop joyful... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...distant shore : Or, in dark chufches, walk among the dead ; * They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. It is a general rule in poetry, that all appropriated terms of art should be sunk in general expressions, because poetry is to speak an universal language. This rule... | |
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Or, shipwreck'd, labour to some distant shore ; Or, in dark churches, walk among the dead : They wake with horror, and dare sleep no more. 
