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... The Works of the English Poets: Prefaces - Page 140by Samuel Johnson - 1772Full view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 364 pages
...decline the pradtice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiflion, that look on gran| deur with undiftinguifhing reverence, and difcover no defed: where there... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 376 pages
...decline the praftice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled tt> eneomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...by the proftitution of his judgement. It is indeed qot certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much rebelled againft his intereft. There are minds... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 484 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confidcrs the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...intereft. There are minds which eafily fink, into fubmifrion, that look on grandeur with . . undiftinguifhing undiftingulfhing reverence, and difcover... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 476 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and brings praife rather as a tribute than...the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proflitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1783 - 484 pages
...than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the prbftitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions fcis judgement much rebelled againft his intereft. There are minds which eafily fink into fubmiffion,... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...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...fertility of his invention, than mortified by the proflitution of his. judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on thefe occafions his judgement much... | |
| English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the neceffity : he confiders the great as entitled to encomiaftick homage, and 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.... | |
| 1793 - 806 pages
...he never fecms to decline the piaflice or lament the ncceffity. He appears to have been ^-^sidighted with the fertility of his invention than mortified by the proftitution of his judgc«:, »hich was probably, like his immorality and his merriment, artificial and conftrained, the... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 806 pages
...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 and conilrained, the... | |
| John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...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 hU judgment." In this animated passage, that noble spirit of independence for which... | |
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