 | 1796 - 690 pages
...; and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Viflory hovers over a general, or perches on a liandard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, bat to .(hock the mind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 pages
...on a flandard; but -Fame and Victory can do no more. To .give them any real employment, or -afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to fhock the mind by afcribing effects to .non-entity. In the Prometheus of JEfchylus, we fee Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 pages
...airy beings are, for the moll part, fuffered only to do their natural office; and retire. Thus "-Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to mock, the mind by... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...airy. beings are, for the moft part, fuffered only to do their natural office, and retire* Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame aud Victory can do iio-more. To g!ve"fhe"m any real employment, or afcribe to them... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...perehes on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to fhock the mind by afcribing eflects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of ^Efchylus, we fee Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...airy beings are, for the moft part, fuffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...airy beings are, for the moft part, fuffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard; but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...airy beings are, for the moft part, fuffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them... | |
 | 1796 - 692 pages
...perches on a fiandard; but Fame and Viftory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to (hock the mind by afcribing effedls to non-entity. Tn the Prometheus of .<Efchylus, we fee fioleace... | |
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To exalt causes into agents, to invest abstract ideas with form and animate them with activity has always been the right of poetry. But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale,... 
