 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1837 - 264 ページ
...l incline to hope, rather than fear. Milton's Comut. COECHOECS. lMPATfENCE OF ABSENCE. Move quickly sun, and fly a lover's pace ! Leave weeks and months behind thee in the race ! Dryden. Oh ! how impatience gains upon the soul, When the long promised hour of joy draws... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 ページ
...delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where...precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of umdeal vacancy. This inclination sometimes produced nonsense, which he knew ; as, Mora swiftly, Sun,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 742 ページ
...delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He > x > ` > * lover's рас«, Leave weeks and months behind thee in thy race, Amamel flies To guard thee from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 ページ
...sallies of sentiment, in the irregular anil eccentric violence 01 wit. He delighted to tread upon tht brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to...precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of nnideal vacancy. This inclination sometimes produced nonsense which he knew ; as, ( Move swiftly, Sun,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1842 - 716 ページ
...delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where...the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss ofoinidcal vacancy. This inclination sometimes produced nonsense, which he knew ; as, Моте rwiniy,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 ページ
...was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit;" that he "delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to minD 37. gle; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy."... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1843 - 718 ページ
...delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He precipic» of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unide«! vacancy. This inclination sometimes produced... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 558 ページ
...was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit;" that he "delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness hegin to minD S7 gle; to approach the precipice of absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy."... | |
 | 1844 - 766 ページ
...false and unprimitive doctrine, it strongly reminds us of what Dr. Johnson says of Dryden, that he delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where...absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy,) there came a disavowal of certain statements against the Romish church, by Mr. Newman, with his doctrine... | |
 | William Mitchell - 1844 - 128 ページ
...Lactantius, and others, involve the same conception. Vol. III. p. 73. Dr. Johnson said of Dryden, that he " delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where...absurdity, and hover over the abyss of unideal vacancy." Coleridge delighted to tread further, and to throw himself into the abyss of absolute vacancy. What... | |
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Next to argument, his delight was in wild and daring sallies of sentiment, in the irregular and eccentric violence of wit. He delighted to tread upon the brink of meaning, where light and darkness begin to mingle ; to approach the precipice of absurdity,... 
