 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 704 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...tempted our attempt At one slight bound high over-leapt all bound. I know there are figures for this kind of speech, that some of the greatest ancients have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1854 - 542 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign1 assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...our attempt — At one slight bound high over-leapt all bound. I know there are figures for this kind of speech, that some of the greatest ancients have... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1856 - 1090 pages
...and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...passages, and many others : And brought into the world a \aorld of woe. Begirt th' Almighty throne Beseeching or beaieging This tempted our attempt At one slight... | |
 | Spectator The - 1857 - 780 pages
...assistasco. Our language sunk under him, and was unnjial sthat greatness of soul which furnished hia «*• uilt ?' The king replied, ' His ancestors.' ' And who/ »ay» the der oiks affects a kind of jingle in his words, as ia tht fallowing passages and many other«: And brought... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1859 - 512 pages
...least of all in an heroic poem ; and yet Milton, in some instances, has descended to that puerility : And brought into the world a world of woe. begirt th' Almighty throne Beseechinu: or besieging • Which tempted our attempt At one plight bound high overlcap'd all bound.... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1864 - 472 pages
...and Beauty, without having recourse to these 'oreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was unequal to that greatness of soul which furnished...that he often affects a kind of jingle in his words., 428 No. 298.] THE SPECTATOR. as in the following passages, and many] others: And brought into the world... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1863 - 206 pages
...was unequal to that greatnefs of Soul, which furnifhed him with fuch glorious Conceptions. A fecond Fault in his Language is, that he often affects a kind of Jingle in his Words, as in the following PafTages, and many others : And brought into the World a World of woe. -Begirt tK Almighty Throne Befeeching... | |
 | Roger Ascham - 1868 - 372 pages
...was unequal to that greatnefs of Soul, which fumilhed him with fuch glorious Conceptions. A fecond Fault in his Language is, that he often affects a kind of Jingle in his Words, as in the following Paffages, and many others : And brought into the World a World of woe. -Begirt tK Almighty Throne Befeeching... | |
 | John Milton - 1869 - 588 pages
...was unequal to that greatnefs of Soul, which furnilhed him with fuch glorious Conceptions. A fécond Fault in his Language is, that he often affects a kind of Jingle in his Words, as in the following Paifages, and many others : And brought into the World a World of woe. -Begirt tK Almighty Throne Befeeching... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1868 - 196 pages
...his Language is, that he often af fedls a kind of Jingle in his Words, as in the following Paflages, and many others : And brought into the World a World of woe. -Begirt th' Almighty Throne Befeeching or befiegingThis tempted our attemptAt one Slight bound high overleapt all bound. I know... | |
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Milton's sentiments and ideas were so wonderfully sublime, that it would have been impossible for him to have represented them in their full strength and beauty, without having recourse to these foreign assistances. Our language sunk under him, and was... 
