 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 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...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 σελίδες
...are, for the most part, suffered only to do their natural office, and retire. Thus Fame tells a talc, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a...is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock tire mind by ascribing effects to non.entity. In the "Prometheus" of jEschylus, we see Violence and... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 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 nonentity. In the Prometheus of Mschylus, we see Violence and Strength, and in the Alcestis of Euripides, we see Death, brought upon... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 238 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...and Victory can do no more. To give them any real empl^ment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 σελίδες
...abstract ideas with form, and animate them with activity, has always been the right of poetry. . . . To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them...longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to aon-entity. ... In the Alcestis of Euripides we see Death brought upon the stage ; but no precedents... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 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...and Victory can do no more. To give them any real 5 employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 σελίδες
...and retire. Thus Fame tells a tale6 and Victory hovers over a general or perches on a standard 7 ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them...the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometketts of ./Eschylus we see Violence and Strength, and in the Alcestis of Euripides we see Death,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 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 perches on a standard ; but Fame 20 and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency,... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 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...give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any real material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects... | |
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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,... 
