| Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 278 Seiten
...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 sentiment, and animates matter; vet perhaps scarce any man now peruses it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 414 Seiten
...animates matter : yet. perhaps, ^-n u__ ,n" ' 'T' 'i ,.-n'-'— *' — ~— 'ni , . ••., ' 1 • * . scarce any man now peruses it without some disturbance...words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than tq implore the presence of night, invested, not in common obscurity, but in the smoke of .hell? Yet... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 416 Seiten
...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...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence'of night, invested, not in common obscurity, but in the smoke of hell ? Yet the efficacy of... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 558 Seiten
...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...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence'of night, invested, not in common obscurity, but in the smoke of hell? Yet the efficacy of... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 438 Seiten
...exerted all the force of poetry, Jhat &ree which calls new ppwers .into being,.. ^yhjch ejjk-- bodies sentiment, and animates matter; yet, perhaps, scarce...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence'of night, invested, not in common obscurity, but in the smoke of hell ? Yet the efficacy of... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 Seiten
...the blanket of the darkv 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 attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 488 Seiten
...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...man now peruses it without some disturbance of his atterftion from the counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 Seiten
...blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry; that position interest may inflame us, no man everoutlived an enemy, whom he did not then wisli peruiei it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 Seiten
...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...disturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the worda to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence of night, invested, not... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 620 Seiten
...blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetrr , that force which calls new powers into being. which embodies...attention from the counteraction of the words to the idris. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence of night, invested, not in common obscurity,... | |
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