 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pagina’s
...perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity. » , Dryden remarks, that Milton has some flats... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pagina’s
...perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe that he does not know himself; shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the " Prometheus" of jEschylus, we sec Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pagina’s
...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the Prometheus of jEschylus, we see Violence and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pagina’s
...perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, hut to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the " Prometheus" of Jischylus, we see... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 858 pagina’s
...perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can d» no more. To give them any real employment, or aseribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by aseribing effects to non-entity. » Dryden remarks, that Milton has some dais among... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pagina’s
...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 no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to non-entity. In the ' Prometheus ' of ^Eschylus we see Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pagina’s
...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the Prometheus of Jfechylus we see Violence and... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pagina’s
...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the Prometheus of ^Eschylus, we see Violence and... | |
 | Shiukichi Shigemi - 1889 - 508 pagina’s
...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the Prometheus of Mschylus, we see Violence and... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1892 - 234 pagina’s
...perches on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the Prometheus of ^Eschylus we see Violence and... | |
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But such 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 no more. To give them any real employment or... 
