 Let us abstract from his wit the vivacity of insolence, and withdraw from his efficacy the sympathetic favour of plebeian malignity; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood; but if we leave him...  The works of Samuel Johnson - Stran 234avtor: Samuel Johnson - 1818Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 strani
...sympathetic favour of plebian malignity ; I do not say that we shall leave, him nothing ; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if -we leave him only his merit, what will be Ms praise ? It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of allusion,... | |
 | Junius, John Mason Good - 1812 - 548 strani
...sympathetic favour of plebeian malignity ; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing ; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave...his fertility of allusion, that he detains the cits of1 London and the boors of Middlesex. Of stile and sentiment they take no cognizance. They admire... | |
 | Junius - 1813 - 530 strani
...sympathetic favour of plebeian malignity; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood; but if we leave...the cits of London and the boors of Middlesex. Of stile and sentiment they take no cognizance. They admire him for virtues like their own, for contempt... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 540 strani
...sympathetick favour of plebeian malignity ; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing ; the cause that I defend, scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave...not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of period.<;, or luj fertility of allusion, that he detains the cits of London, and the boors of Middlesex.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 542 strani
...sympathetick favour of plebeian malignity ; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing ; the cause that I defend, scorns the help of falsehood; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise ? of London, and the boors of Middlesex. Of style and sentiment they take no cognizance. They admire... | |
 | William Jones - 1825 - 452 strani
...favour of plebeian malignity, — I do not say that we shall leave him nothing, — the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise ?" The same writer afterwards adds, " Junius is an unusual phenomenon, on which some have gazed with... | |
 | David Hume, Tobias Smollett, William Jones - 1828 - 474 strani
...favour of plebeian malignity, — I do not say that we shall leave him nothing, — the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise T' The On the appearance of this libellous paper, the attorney-general filed a bill ex officio in the... | |
 | Isaac Newhall - 1831 - 378 strani
...— ' It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of allusions, that he detains the cits of London and the boors of...Middlesex. Of style and sentiment, they take no cognizance . . . The supporters of the Bill of Rights feel no niceties of composition .... Though I cannot think... | |
 | Isaac Newhall - 1831 - 376 strani
...sympathetic favor of plebeian malignity ; I do not say that we shall leave him nothing ; the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave him only his merit, what will he his praise ? ' It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 strani
...sympathetic favour of plebeian malignity; I do not say that we shal! leave him nothing : the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise ? Itis not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of allusion, that... | |
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