 | 1752 - 204 pagina’s
...wound it makes ; Nor Heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold! In this paflage is exerted all the force of poetry ; that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies fentiment, and animates lifelefs matter : yet perhaps fcarce any man ever perufed it without feme difturbance... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pagina’s
...it makes; Kor hcav'n peep through the blanket of the (U;k, ' . To cry, Hold, hold! In this paflagc is exerted, all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies fentirnent, and animates matter; yet perjiaps fcarceanymannowperul'es'h withgut fome dilturbancc of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pagina’s
...it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket pf the d.tr ir, To cry, Hold, hold ! -ln this pafiage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies fentiment, and animates matter; yet perhaps fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pagina’s
...wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this paffage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies fentiment, and animates matter; yet perhaps. fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pagina’s
...wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this paffage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies fentiment, and animates matter ; yet perhaps fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pagina’s
...knife see not the wound it makes; Nor Heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark. To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry,...which calls new powers into being, which embodies sentiments and animates matter ; yet perhaps scarce any man now peruses it without some disturbance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pagina’s
...not the wound it malces ; . . Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark. To cry, Hold, hold! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry;...any man now peruses it without some disturbance of Ws attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore... | |
 | 1806 - 420 pagina’s
...fentiment, and animates matter ; yet, perhaps, fcarce any man now perufes it without fome difturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words...ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the prefence of night, inverted, not in common obfcurity, but in the fmoke of hell ? Yet the efficacy of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pagina’s
...see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry...animates matter ; yet, perhaps, scarce any man now pursues it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction of the words to the ideas.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 278 pagina’s
...see not the wound it makes ; Nor heav'n peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry, Hold, hold ! In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry,...being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter; vet perhaps scarce any man now peruses it without some disturbance of his attention from the counteraction... | |
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In this passage is exerted all the force of poetry, that force which calls new powers into being, which embodies sentiment, and animates matter... 
