 | 1780 - 596 pages
...it. exhibits likewife his power of defcription, and his vigour of fcntiment, employed in the praile and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; alluflons, images, and defcriptive epithets, embellilh almoft every period with lavifli decoration.... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 pages
...it exhibits likewife his power of defcription, and his vigour of fentiment, employed in the praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; allufions, images, and defcriptive epithets, cmbeliifn almoft every period with lavifh decoration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...it exhibits likewife his power of defcription, and his vigour of fentiment, employed in the praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; allufions, images, and defcriptive epithets, embellim almoft every period with lavifh decoration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...it exhibits likewife his power ci" defcription and his vigour of fentiment, employed in the praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found; allufions, images, and defcriptive epithets, embellifh almoft every period with lavifh decoration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...; it exhibits likewife his power of defcription and his vigour of fentiment, employed in the praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; allufions, images, and defcriptive epithets, embellifh almoft every period with lavifh decoration.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...language; it exhibits likewife his power of defcription and his vigour of fentiment, employed in the praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; allufions, images, and de* Mr. Warton intimates (and there can be little doubt of th,s truth of his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...; it exhibits likewife his power of defcription and his vigour of fentiment, employed in the praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; allufions, images, and de* Mr. Warton intimates (and there can be little doubt of the truth of his... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...afford only a specimen of his language ; it eiKfiits liken Is* ' his power of description and liis vigour of sentiment, employed in the praise and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical 'h rarely found ; allusidra, ' od with lavish Jv -red as wortliy of all the admiration with which the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...maturer judgment approved, and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate. Nor does Cnmus afford only a specimen of his language ; it exhibits...poetical is rarely found ; allusions, images, and descriplive epithets, embellish almost every period with lavish decoration. As a series of lines, therefore,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pages
...reforted to, as many others have 'done, for amufement after the fatigue of ftudy. H. praife praife and defence of virtue. A work more truly poetical is rarely found ; allufions, images, and defcriptive epithets, embellifh almoft every period with lavifh decoration.... | |
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Milton appears to have formed very early that system of diction, and mode of verse, which his maturer judgment approved, and from which he never endeavoured nor desired to deviate. Nor does Comus afford only a specimen of his language; it exhibits, likewise,... 
