 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity: he considers the ' great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...whom he wished to court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another stamp. Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...whom he wished to court on the morrow, new wit and virtue with another stamp. Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | John Dryden - 1821 - 570 pages
...retaliation. The extreme flattery of Dryden's dedications have been objected to him, as a fault of an opposite description ; and perhaps no writer has equalled...words of submissive style which still precede the subscription of an ordinary letter. It is probable, that Dry den considered his panegyrics as merely... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...to decline the practice, or lament the necessity: he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...invention, than mortified by the prostitution of his judgement. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgement much rebelled against his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 652 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Saturday night - 1824 - 968 pages
...this kind of meanness h* never seems to decline the practice, or lament the necessity ; he considered the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and brings...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is, indeed, not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastick homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than...mortified by the prostitution of his judgment. It is indeed not certain, that on these occasions his judgment much rebelled against his interest. There... | |
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Of this kind of meanness he never seems to decline the practice, or lament the necessity : he considers the great as entitled to encomiastic homage, and brings praise rather as a tribute than a gift, more delighted with the fertility of his invention,... 
