| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...The fong of Comus has airmefs and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleafure are fo general, that they excite. no diftinft images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following foliloquies... | |
| Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...The fong of Comus has airinefs and jollity; but, 'what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleafure are fo general, that they excite no diftinft images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following foliloquies... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...The fong of Comus has airinefs and jollity ; but, what may recommend Milton's morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleafure are fo general,...delight. At laft the brothers enter, with too much tranquility ; and when they have feared left their fifter fhould be in danger, and hoped that me is... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice, if... | |
| John Milton, Thomas Warton - English drama - 1799 - 148 pages
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice, if... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, a,nd take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice, if... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice if... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...morals as wll at his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are sojV" neral, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, hat tedious. The song must one much to the voice, if... | |
| John Milton - 1808 - 96 pages
...Dr. Johnson has ohserved, his "invitations to pleasure are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The late ingenious Mr. Headley, indie Supplement to his Select Beauties of Ancient Engtuk Poetry, 1787,'ilirects... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...well as .his poetry, the invitations to pleasure are so general, that (that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. The following soliloquies of Comus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe mucfc to the voice if... | |
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