 Yet the efficacy of this invocation is destroyed by the insertion of an epithet now seldom heard but in the stable, and dun night may come or go without any other notice than contempt.  Conclusion of the Rambler - Page 144by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823Full view - About this book
 | 1752 - 204 pages
...of this invocation is deftroyed by the infertion of an epithet now feldom heard but in the ftable, and dun night may come or go without any other notice than contempt. If we ftart into raptures when fome hero of the Iliad tells us that ifcipu paiisntu, his lance rages with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1763 - 262 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson - 1767 - 284 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...of this invocation is dtftroyed by the infertion of an epithet now feldom heard but in the ftable, and dun night may come or go without any other notice than contempt. If we ftart into raptures when fome hero of the Iliad tells us that Scpu :U*'tI/ETnt, his lance rages with... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...this invocation is deftroyed by the infertion of an epithet jiow feldom heard but in the ftable,.and dun night may come or go without any other notice than contempt. If we ftart into raptures v/hen fome hero of the Iliad tells us that Sfyv /t*«»«T«i, his lance rages... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...of this invocation is deftroyed by the infertion of an epithet now feldom heard but in the ftable, and dun night may come or go without any other notice than contempt. If we ftart into raptures when fome hero of the Iliad tells us that S°p\I pawrai, his lance rages with eagernefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 296 pages
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 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence of night, invested not in common obscurity but in the...raptures when some hero of the Iliad tells us that iifv paunm, his lance rages with eagerness to destroy; if we are alarmed at the terror of the soldiers... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 268 pages
...counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence oi night, invested not in common obscurity, but in the...contempt. If we start into raptures when some hero of the Illiad tells us, that (S/pu ftaivtr»i) his lance rages with eagerness to destroy : if we are alarmed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 354 pages
...counteraction of the words to the ideas. What can be more dreadful than to implore the presence of night, invested, not in common obscurity, but in the...raptures when some hero of the Iliad tells us that Sopu paiviTou, his lance rages with eagerness to destroy ; if we are alarmed at the terror of the soldiers... | |
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