 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Com us has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...recommend MILTON'S Morals, " as well as his Poetry, they are so general that they excite no " distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous " hold on the fancy." This rare excellence might probably be traced to bis fondness for the doctrines of Plato. Had all Johnson's... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Comus has airiness and jollity; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Comus has airiness and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...morals, as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice, if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...therefore listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. - The song of Comus has airiness and jollity; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...therefore, listens as to a lecture, without passion, without anxiety. The song of Comus has airiness and jollity; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to poetry are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous... | |
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Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. 
