 Such equivocations are always unskilful ; but here they are indecent, and at least approach to impiety, of which, however, I believe the writer not to have been conscious. Such is the power of reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the...  Biographical and Critical Miscellanies - Strona 276autor: William Hickling Prescott - 1857 - Liczba stron: 729Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - Liczba stron: 610
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely, no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its Author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform : every man... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - Liczba stron: 336
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L' "Allegro and // Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform ; every man that reads... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - Liczba stron: 476
...reputation justly acquired^ that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L" Allegro and // Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform ; every man that reads... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - Liczba stron: 420
...reputation justly acquired that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known its author. Of the two pieces, L'Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe opinion is uniform ; every man... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - Liczba stron: 486
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and 77 Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform ; every man that reads... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - Liczba stron: 410
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and // Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform ; every man that reads... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 466
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and H Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform ; every man that reads... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - Liczba stron: 476
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author. Of the two pieces, L' Allegro and II Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform ; every man that reads... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - Liczba stron: 326
...to be 'inelegantly splendid, and tediously instructive,' and which ventured to assert that ' no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the author !' Unfortunately, however, Warton could not forget that Milton was a Calvinist and a republican ; his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - Liczba stron: 674
...reputation justly acquired, that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied that he read Lycidas with pleasure, had he not known the authour. Of the two pieces, L Allegro and // Penseroso, I believe, opinion is uniform; every man that... | |
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