 Th' oblivious grave's inviolable shade. Let one great payment every claim appease, And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes, unconscious of offence, By harmless merriment, or useful sense. Where aught of bright or fair the piece...  Annual Register of World Events - Stran 1991805Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | John Genest - 1832 - 668 strani
...zeal, or malice, now no more we dread, " For English vengeance wars not with the dead. »#«**#* " Where aught of bright, or fair the piece displays,...appear, " Forbear to hiss — the poet cannot hear." A little time before Dr. Johnson wrote this Prologue, he had written a speech for Dr. Dodd, when called... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 strani
...inviolable shade. Let one great payment every claim appease, And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes, unconscious of offence, By harmless...piece displays, Approve it only ; — 'tis too late too praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By... | |
 | 1837 - 738 strani
...gratification and rational intercourse; but where, at the same time, the object of every one, is — ' To please by scenes unconscious of offence, By harmless merriment, or useful sense.' These soir«*es (to adopt the more abbreviated term of the French) have of late years become very general... | |
 | James Boswell - 1843 - 588 strani
...inviolable shade. Let one great payment every claim appease, And him who cannot hurt, allow to please; To please by scenes, unconscious of offence, By harmless...hiss; — the poet cannot hear. By all, like him, inu.st praise and blame be found, At last, a fleeting gleam or empty sound: Yet then shall calm reflection... | |
 | James Boswell - 1844 - 370 strani
...inviolable shade. Let one great payment every claim appease, And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes, unconscious of offence, By harmless...piece displays, Approve it only ; — 'tis too late too praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By... | |
 | William Goodman - 1844 - 378 strani
...useful purposes. Although our ancestors were arrant gamblers, some of them knew the happy tact, of how " To please by scenes unconscious of offence, By harmless merriment or useful sense." I select the following account of some of them from the catalogue of the Doucean Museum, Goodrich Court,... | |
 | William Goodman - 1845 - 440 strani
...useful purposes. Although our ancestors were arrant gamblers, some of them knew the happy tact, of how " To please by scenes unconscious of offence, By harmless merriment or useful sense." I select the following account of some of them from the catalogue of the Doucean Museum, Goodrich Court,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 276 strani
...shade. , 10 Let one great payment every claim appease, 11 And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes unconscious of offence, By harmless...cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found, At best a fleeting dream, or empty sound. 20 Yet then shall calm Reflection bless the night... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1855 - 272 strani
...shade. 10 Let one great payment every claim appease, 11 And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes unconscious of offence, By harmless...cannot hear. By all like him must praise and blame be found, At best a fleeting dream, or empty sound. 20 Yet then shall calm Reflection bless the night... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 464 strani
...inviolable shade. Let one great payment every claim appease, And him who cannot hurt, allow to please ; To please by scenes, unconscious of offence, By harmless...piece displays, Approve it only ; — 'tis too late too praise. If want of skill or want of care appear, Forbear to hiss ; — the poet cannot hear. By... | |
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