 | Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 páginas
...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...can do no more. To give them any real employment, or to ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...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...the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Pror metheus of jEschylus, we see violence and strength, and in the Aleestis of Euripides, we see death... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...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...longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonenity. In the Prometheus of ./Eschylus, we see violence and strength, and in the Aleestis of Euripides,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...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...^Eschylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the Akestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon the stage, all as active persons of the drama ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...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...ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of jEschylus, we see I'iolence and Strength, and in the Alceslis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon... | |
 | 1818 - 646 páginas
...remarks on this suhject, that' to give any real employment to such allegorical persons, or to ascrihe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, hut to shock the mind, hy ascrihing effects to non-entity. We see Death, Violence, and Strength, &c.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 páginas
...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...ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of Mschylus, we see violence and strength, and in the Alcestes of Euripides, we see death, brought upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 páginas
...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...ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of JEschylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 páginas
...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-...ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of JEschylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 páginas
...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,...ascribing effects to nonentity. In the Prometheus of Jischylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon... | |
| |
To exalt causes into agents, to invest abstract ideas with form and animate them with activity has always been the right of poetry. But such airy beings are for the most part suffered only to do their natural office and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale,... 
