 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 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. |In the Prometheus of ^Eschylus, we see Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 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. In the " Prometheus " of ^Eschylus, we see Violence... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 pagina’s
...with activity, has always been the right of poetry. . . . 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 aon-entity. ... In the Alcestis of Euripides we see Death brought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 pagina’s
...on a standard ; but Fame 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 shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the ' Prometheus ' of ^Eschylus we see Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pagina’s
...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, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing effects to nonentity. In the'Prometheus ' of Aeschylus, we see Violence... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pagina’s
...Ideen nur „their natural office" vollbringen dürfen. 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 eff ects to non - entity. Auch das Vorbild des Aeschylus und des Euripides... | |
 | John Weld - 1975 - 266 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." 9 It is precisely this real employment given to... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 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. In the Prometheus of Aeschylus, we see Violence... | |
 | Douglas A. Brooks - 2008 - 17 pagina’s
...proponent of this position; he goes on to say that to give such figures "any real employment, or ascribe to them any material agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to shock the mind by ascribing affects to non-entity."6 Gordon Teskey argues that they are structured... | |
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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... 
