 | Samuel Johnson - 1816
...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
...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 - 311 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 - 1820
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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 - 420 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 - 351 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. 
