 | History - 1796 - 690 pages
...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...material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, bat to .(hock the mind by afcribing effects to non-entity. In the frometheut of jEfchylus, we fee Fiolence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a flandard; but -Fame and Victory can do no more. To .give them any real employment, or -afcribe...afcribing effects to .non-entity. In the Prometheus of JEfchylus, we fee Violence and Strength, and in the Alcejlii of Euripides, we fee Death brought upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...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, k to make them allegorical no longer, but to Ihock the mind by afcribing effects to non-entity. In... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...tale, and Viflory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame and Viflory can do no more. To give them any real employment,^ or afcribe to them any ma- • terial agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to mock the mind by afcribing effefts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...has always been the right of poetry. But fuch airy beings are, for the moft part, fuffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells...afcribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of jEfchylus, we fee Violence and Strength, and in the Alcejlis of Euripides, we fee Death, brought upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perehes on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do more....allegorical no longer, but to fhock the mind by afcribing eflects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of ^Efchylus, we fee Violence and Strength, and in the Aleefiis... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...has always been the right of poetry. But fuch airy beings are, for the moft part, fuffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells...^Efchylus, we fee Violence and Strength, and in the Alcejlis of Euripides, we fee Death, brought upon the ftage, all as active perfons of the drama; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...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...of ^Efchylus, we fee Violence and Strength, and in \hs.Alcejih of Euripides, we fee Death brought upon the ftage, all as active perfons of the drama ;... | |
 | History - 1796 - 692 pages
...a tale, and Viflory hovers over a general, or perches on a fiandard; but Fame and Viftory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe...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... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of ^Eschylus, we see Violence... | |
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But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment or... 
