 sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven,  Early years and late reflections v. 2 - Página 66de Clement Carlyon - 1856Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 556 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superiour beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 528 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superiour beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superiour beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 páginas
...sport in the wide regions of possihility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent-his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. . But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of things... | |
 | 1826 - 794 páginas
...imagination only can travel, ami delighted to form new modes of existence and furnish sentiments and actions to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven ! Fancy can hardly forbear to conjecwith what temper Milton surd the silent progress of hie work, nd... | |
 | John Milton - 1833 - 438 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not always be in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of things visible... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds ; he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of things visible... | |
 | 1835 - 404 páginas
...exemplified in the astonishing production before us ? " Reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven." As somewhat allied to the character of his subjects, if not to the character of his mind, it is not... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind: he sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven." But this is far above the general tone of his criticisms; and is half undone again by a passage in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 páginas
...was to s|>ort in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. Ho sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...furnish sentiment and action to superior beings ; to traen the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other... | |
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