 | Walter Scott - 1847 - 726 pągines
...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... | |
 | Wiltshire Stanton Austin, John Ralph - 1853 - 658 pągines
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pągines
...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 certain that on these occasions his judgment much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pągines
...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 - 1867 - 556 pągines
...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... | |
 | Walter Scott, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William) Turner - 1869 - 486 pągines
...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 prostitntiun of his judgment." It may be noticed, in palliation of this heavy charge, that the form... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pągines
...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 certain that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pągines
...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 prosti- 20 tution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgement... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pągines
...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 30 mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pągines
...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... | |
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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... 
