 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
 | George Lillie Craik - 1861 - 580 strani
...ascendant, he has been able to advance it ; finding the nation combustible, he has been able to inflame it 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 578 strani
...ascendant, he has been able to advance it ; finding the nation combustible, he has been able to inflame it 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... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1863 - 564 strani
...ascendant, he has been able to advance it ; finding the nation combustible, he has been able to inflame it 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... | |
 | William Giles Goddard - 1870 - 606 strani
...Junius — allow me, by way of set off, to quote Dr. Johnson's opinion of the character of Junius : " It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his 56 felicity of allusion, that lie detains the cits of London, and the boors of Middlesex. Of style... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 strani
...sympathetic favor of plebeian malignity ; I do not say €hat we shall leave him nothing: the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave him only his merit, what shall we praise ? LORD FRANCIS JEFFREY. 1817. Every thing in him (Shakspeare) is in unmeasured abundance... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 strani
...sympathetic favor of plebeian malignity ; I do not say that we sha'l leave him nothing: the cause that I defend scorns the help of falsehood ; but if we leave him only his merit, what shall we praise ? LORD FRANCIS JEFFREY. 1817. Every thing in him (Shakspcare) is in unmeasured abundance... | |
 | Junius - 1890 - 528 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 him only his merit, what will be his praise 1 " It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of allusion,... | |
 | John Hepburn Millar - 1902 - 412 strani
...than the lexicographer's summing up of the mysterious being in his tract on the Falkland Islands : " If we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise ? " Yet Junius is a personage of some consequence in English literature. There are faint traces of... | |
 | 1902 - 414 strani
...than the lexicographer's summing up of the mysterious being in his tract on the Falkland Islands : " If we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise ? " Yet Junius is a personage of some consequence in English literature. There are faint traces of... | |
 | William Cowper Brann - 1919 - 328 strani
...efficacy the sympathetic favor of plebeian malignity: I do not say that we shall leave him nothing; but if we leave him only his merit, what will be his praise? " HER BEAUTIFUL EYES. JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY, the poetical ass with the threestory name, which he invariably... | |
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