 ... false, they are too much degraded from the dignity of pastoral innocence; and instead of rejoicing that they are both victorious, I should not have grieved could they have been both defeated. The poem to Pollio is, indeed, of another kind : it is...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 433de Samuel Johnson - 1824Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 328 pages
...begun with a quarrel of which some particular* might well be spared, carried on with sprightliness and elegance, and terminated at last in a reconciliation...to reconcile myself to the disproportion, between th« performance and the occasion that produced it : that the golden age should return because Pollio... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 332 pages
...particulars might well be spared, carried on with sprightliHCSS and elegance, and terminated at last ia a reconciliation : but surely, whether the invectives...not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion, hetween the performance and the occasion that produced it: that the golden age should return because... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 456 pages
...begun with a quarrel of which some particulars might well be spared, carried on with sprightliness and elegance, and terminated at last in a reconciliation...-what he took this opportunity of producing to the public. The fifth contains a celebration of Daphnis, which has stood to all succeeding ages as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...and instead of rejoicing that they are both victorious, I should not have grieved could they feave been both defeated. The poem to Pollio is, indeed,...[poet .of having .written, for some other purpose, whut he took this opportunity of producing to the public. The fifth contains a celebration of Daphnis,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...begun with a quarrel of which some particulars might well be spared, carried on with sprightliness and elegance, and terminated at last in a reconciliation...what he took this opportunity of producing to the public. " The fifth contains a celebration of Daphnis, which has stood to all succeeding ages us the... | |
 | John Hawkesworth - 1823 - 302 pages
...shepherds, begun with a quarrel of which some particular might well be spared, carried on with sprightliness and elegance, and terminated at last in a reconciliation...what he took this opportunity of producing to the public. " The fifth contains a celebration of Daphnis, which has stood to all succeeding ages as the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 636 pages
...begun with a quarrel of which some particulars might well be spared, carried on with sprightliness and elegance, and terminated at last in a reconciliation...what he took this opportunity of producing to the public. ' The fifth contains a celebration of Daphnis which has stood to all succeeding ages as the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...to Pollio is indeed of another kind : it is filled with images at once splendid and pleasing, and it sguises, which he feels in privacy to be useless incumbrances,...all effect when they become familiar. To be happy 6ction, that I am ready to suspect the poet of haT ing written for some other purpose, what he took... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...to Pollio is indeed of another kind : it is filled with image? at once splendid and pleasing, and it is elevated with grandeur of language worthy of the...a fiction, that I am ready to suspect the poet of hav ingwritten for some other purpose, what he took this opportunity of producing to the public. The... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 624 pages
...to Pollio is indeed of another kind i it is filled with images at once splendid and pleasing, and it is elevated with grandeur of language worthy of the first of Roman poets, but 1 am not able to reconcile myself to the disproportion between the performance and the occasion that... | |
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