 | 1752
...perhaps fcarce any man ever perufed it without feme difturbance of his attention from the counteraftion of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful, than to implore the prefence of night, inverted not in common obfcnrity, but in the f;noke of hell ? Yet the force of this... | |
 | 1785
...fcarceanymannowperul'es'h withgut fome dilturbancc of hi» attention from the countf raflion of ffie words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefence of night, inrefted not in common obfnirity, but in the fmoke of hell? Yet the efficacy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Sir John Hawkins - 1787
...fentiment, and animates matter; yet perhaps fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefence of night, inverted not in common obfctirity, but in the fmokc of hell? Yet the efficacy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
...fentiment, and animates matter; yet perhaps. fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefence of night, inverted not in common obfcurity, but in the fmoke of hell? Yet; the efficacy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792
...fentiment, and animates matter ; yet perhaps fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefence of night, inverted not in common obfcurity, but in the fmoke of hell ? Yet the efficacy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 463 Seiten
...anv man now perufesit without fome difturbance of his attention from the counteraftion of the wordl to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefcnce ot night, invefted not in common uMcuiity, but in the fmoke of hell? Yet the (tficacy of this... | |
 | 1803
...exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies sentiments and animates matter ; yet perhaps scarce any man now...can be more dreadful than to implore the presence oi night, invested not in common obscurity, but in the smoke of hell! Yet the efficacy of this invocation... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806
...the blanket of the dark. To cry, Hold, hold! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry; that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies...any man now peruses it without some disturbance of Ws attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore... | |
 | 1806
...fentiment, and animates matter ; yet, perhaps, fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefence of night, inverted, not in common obfcurity, but in the fmoke of hell ? Yet the efficacy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811
...blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry ; that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies...animates matter ; yet, perhaps, scarce any man now pursues it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas.... | |
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In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter... 
