| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pàgines
...wit and virtue with another ftamp. Of this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the pradtice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as...the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pàgines
...decline the praftice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled tt> eneomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed qot certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1772 - 388 pàgines
...court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another ftanip. Of this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or 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 the fertility... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pàgines
...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...that on thefe occafions his judgement much rebelled againft his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fub miffion, that look on grandeur with... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pàgines
...court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another ftamp. Of this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity :...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 344 pàgines
...court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another ftamp. Of this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity :...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 pàgines
...court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another flamp. Of this kind of meannefs he never feems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity :...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pàgines
...this kind of meannefs he never items to decline the practice, or lament the *" neceflity : neceflity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick...the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pàgines
...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... | |
| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 608 pàgines
...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." In this animated passage, that noble spirit of independence for which... | |
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