 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 σελίδες
...such airv beings are for the most part, suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thu Fame tells a tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or...perches on a standard but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, o ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 σελίδες
...airy beings are, for the molt part, fullered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a 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... | |
 | 1802 - 684 σελίδες
...perches on a ftandàrd; but Fame and Viftory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to {hock the mind, by aicribing efteih to non-entity. In the Prometheiu of .lEfchylus, we fee Violence... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 σελίδες
...airy beings ar<, 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 more. To give them any real employment, or asciibe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 σελίδες
...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 Akestit of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon the stage, all as active persons of the drama ; but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 σελίδες
...airy beings are, for the moft part, fufrered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 σελίδες
...a:;d Victory hovers over a general, or perches on 2 standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. Jo give them any real employment, or ascribe to them...allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing i fleets to non-entity. In the Prometheus of jEschylus, we see Violrnce and Strength, and in the Akestis... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 σελίδες
...perches on a fiandard ; but Fame and Viclory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to (hock the mind by afcribing effects to non-entity. la the Prometheus of .fllfchylus, we fee Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 σελίδες
...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 _3£schylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the Alcestis qf Euripides, we see Death, brought... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 σελίδες
...most part, suf. fered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale, and Viclory hovers over a general, or perches on a standard; but...ascribing effects to non.entity. In the Prometheus of Alschylus, we see Violence and Sti-eugth, and in the • Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought... | |
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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,... 
