 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pàgines
...lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to eneomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 pàgines
...decline the prafiice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders. the great as entitled to encomiaftic homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighied with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proltituiion of his judgement."... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pàgines
...to court on tbe morrow, new wii aud virtue of another ftamp. Of this kind of meannefs he never fcems to decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great an entitled to encomiaftic homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than a gilt, more delighted... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 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...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 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...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pàgines
...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...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment." It may be noticed, in palliation of this heavy charge, that the form... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 652 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...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... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pàgines
...lament the necessity ; he considered the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift : more delighted with...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 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...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much... | |
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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... 
