 He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellished...  profaces, briogrpahical and critical - Page 27by samuel johnson - 1781Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 602 pages
...me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellimed with beauty, and enlarged with majefty. : Yet could the author, who appears here to have... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...my own affrights me with its echoes.. i • i i • He who reads thofe lines enjoys far a mo-* ment the powers of a poet; he feels what he remembers to...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellimed with beauty, and enlarged with majefty. Yet could the authdr, who appears here to have enjoyed... | |
 | Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...me thy hand, «nd let me hear thy voice; Nay, quickly fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. * He who reads thofe...he feels what he remembers to have felt before, but be feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1791 - 490 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he...feels what he remembers to have felt before, but he fee's it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified... | |
 | 1795 - 846 pages
...fpeak to me, »nd let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echo». He who reads thefe lines enjoys, for a moment, the powers of a poet ; he feels what he bers to hare felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognize» a fairilir... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...hear . Thy voice my own affright* me with its echoes. " He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a momenc the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifiied with beauty, and enlarged with majefty." Speaking of the other pieces by Congreve, Johnfon... | |
 | Biography - 1798 - 604 pages
...me thy hand, and let me hear thy voice ; Nay, quickly fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. " He who reads thofe...image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embelli (lied with beauty, and enlarged with majelty. " The ' Birth of the Mufe ' is a miferable fiction.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...with its •chocs. He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feelj wlut he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility'; he recognizes.a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 424 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he...felt before ; but he feels it with great increafe 03 of of fenfibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded, embellifhed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads these lines enjoys for a moment the powers of » poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before ; but he feels it with great increase of sensibility; he yecognizes.a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
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