 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1883 - 554 pages
...welcome both. Do not shut your book : we have time left for the rest. reason, but in saying that "it is of no use, because it is false, and therefore unsuitable to a good being." Warton answers this objection with great propriety. It may be added that things in themselves very... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...that the Lady is in 10 the power of Comus ; the Brother moralises again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration, of no use because it is false, and therefore...between the Lady and Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama, and wants nothing but a brisker reciprocation of objections and replies,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...that the Lady is in the power of Comus ; the Brother moralises again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration, of no use because it is false, and therefore...all these parts the language is poetical, and the senti30 ments are generous ; but there is something wanting to allure attention. The songs are vigorous,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - English poetry - 1900 - 318 pages
...power of Comus ; the Brother moralises again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration, of no use 15 because it is false, and therefore unsuitable to a...attention. The '..dispute between the Lady and Comus is the 20 most animated and affecting scene of the drama, and wants nothing but a brisker reciprocation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 530 pages
...Comus, the Brother moralises again, and the Spirit makes a ,-\t' long narration, of no use because'TF is false, and therefore unsuitable to a good Being....parts the language is poetical and the sentiments 202 are generous, but there is something wanting to allure attention. The dispute between the Lady... | |
 | Leon Kellner, Gustav Krüger - English language - 1906 - 502 pages
...find sentiments for the state of innocence was very difficult." [Gedanken, Ideen.] (ibid. p. 115.) "In all these parts the language is poetical, and the sentiments are generous." (ibid. p. 103.) "The general fault is, that he affords more sentiment than description, and does not... | |
 | 1906 - 506 pages
...find sentiments for the state of innocence was very difficult." [Gedanken, Ideen.l (ibid. p. 115.) "In all these parts the language is poetical, and the sentiments are generous." (ibid. p. 103.) "The general fault is, that he affords more sentiment than description, and does not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1907 - 172 pages
...relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus; the Brother moralises again ; and the Spirit makes a long narration, of no use because it is false, and therefore...all these parts the language is poetical, and the sen^Stiments are generous; but there is something wanting to allure attention. The dispute between... | |
 | John Milton - 1919 - 276 pages
...relates that the Lady is in the power of Comus; the Brother moralises again; and the Spirit makes a long narration, of no use because it is false, and therefore...between the Lady and Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama, and wants nothing but a brisker reciprocation of objections and replies... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1927 - 354 pages
...Johnson talks absurdly, not on the long narration, for which he has reason, but in saying that " it is of no use, because it is false, and therefore unsuitable to a good being." Warton answers this objection with great propriety. It may be added that things in themselves very... | |
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In all these parts the language is poetical, and the sentiments are generous ; but there is something wanting to allure attention. The dispute between the Lady and Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama, and wants nothing but a brisker... 
