 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1772 - 388 pages
...exaggeration. The praife lavifhecl by Longinus, on the atteftation of the heroes of Maranthon, by Demofthcncs, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited...added, diminifhed, or reformed; nor can, the editors tors and. admirers of Shakefpeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boa-ft of much more than of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 364 pages
...without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Longinus, on the atteftation of the heroes of Maranthon, by Demofthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a charafter, fo extenfive in its comprehenfion, and fo curious in its limitations, that nothing can be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 376 pages
...may ftand as a perpetual model of cncomiuftick criticifm; exaft without minutenefs, and lofty without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Longinus, on the atteftation of the heroes of Maranthon, by Demofthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a charafter, fo extenfive... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...ftand as a perpetual model of encomiaftick criticifm ; exact without minutenefs, and lofty without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Longinus, on...can the editors and admirers of Shakfpeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boaft of much more than of having diffufed and paraphrafed this epitome... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...exaggeration. The praifc lavifhed by J.onginus, on the atteftation of the heroes of Marathon, by Demoftlienes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, fo extenlive in its comprehenfion, and fo curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminimed,... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 344 pages
...ftand as a perpetual model of encomiaftick criticifm ; exaft without minutenefs, and lofty without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Longinus, on...fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a charafter, fo extenfive in its comprehenfion, and fo curious in its limitations, that nothing can be... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...may ftand as a perpetual model of encomiaftick criticifm; exaft without minurenefs, and lofty without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Longinus, on...can the editors and admirers of Shakfpeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boaft of much more than of having diffufed and paraphrafed this epitome... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...ftand as a perpetual model of encomiaftick criticifm ; exact without minutenefs, and lofty without exaggeration. The praife lavifhed by Longinus, on...or reformed ; nor can the editors and admirers of Shakefpeare, in all their emulation of reverence, boaft of much more than of having diffufed and paraphrafed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1797 - 278 pages
...ftand as a perpetual model of encomiaftick criticifm, exa6t .without minutenefs,'and lofty without exaggeration. — The praife lavifhed by Longinus...Demofthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines it exhibited a character fo extenfive in its comprehenfion, and fo curious in its li,mitations, that... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 622 pages
...exaggeration. The praise lavished by Longinus on the attestation of the heroes of Marathon by Demosthenes, fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character, so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished,... | |
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Demosthenes fades away before it. In a few lines is exhibited a character so extensive in its comprehension, and so curious in its limitations, that nothing can be added, diminished or... 
