 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 Seiten
...perches on a standard but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, o 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 Promttlieu. of ^Eschylus we see Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 Seiten
...tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe...we fee Death, brought upon the ftage, all as active perfons of the drama ; but no precedents can juftify abfurdity. Milton's allegory of Sin and Death... | |
 | 1802 - 684 Seiten
...tale, and Viilory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandàrd; but Fame and Viftory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe...agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to {hock the mind, by aicribing efteih to non-entity. In the Prometheiu of .lEfchylus, we fee Violence... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 Seiten
...perches on a standard ; but Fame and Victory can do more. To give them any real employment, or asciibe 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 and... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...tale, and Victory hovers over a general, or perches on a ftandard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe...afcribing effects to non-entity. In the Prometheus of .^Eichylus, we fee Violence and Strength, and in the Alceftis of Euripides, •we fee Death, brought... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...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 and... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...perches on 2 standard ; but Fame and Victory can do no more. Jo 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 i fleets to non-entity. In the Prometheus of jEschylus, we see Violrnce... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 Seiten
...tale, and Viftory hovers over a general, or perches on a fiandard ; but Fame and Viclory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or afcribe...agency, is to make them allegorical no longer, but to (hock the mind by afcribing effects to non-entity. la the Prometheus of .fllfchylus, we fee Violence... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...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 _3£schylus, we see Violence... | |
 | Frederick Nolan - 1810 - 396 Seiten
...on a standard; but Fame and Victory can do no more. To give them any real employment, or to 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... | |
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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... 
