 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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 Coraus and the Lady are elegant, but tedious. The song must owe much to the voice if... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 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 - 1826 - 430 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 mast owe much to the voice if... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to poetry are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. « The soliloquies of Comus are elegant, but tedious; and we cannot but remark that, unless they are delivered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...for amusement after the fatigue of study.— H. are so general, that they excite no distinct ¡mases 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... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...though it incites to pleasure it does so in such general terms that its invitations " excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy." It emulates the sweetness of Anacreon, but then the sweetness is innoxious. It briefly mentions the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 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... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...morals as well as his poetiy, 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 - 1852 - 858 pages
...morals as well as his poetry, the invitations to poetry are so general, that they excite no distinct images of corrupt enjoyment, and take no dangerous hold on the fancy. « The soliloquies of Comus are elegant, but tedious; and we cannot but remark that, unless they are delivered... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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... | |
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Milton's 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. 
