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| samuel johnson - 1781 - 276 pages
...quickly fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice—my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for 'a. moment the powers of a poet;...remembers to have felt before, but he feels it with great in.creafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image., but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 478 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes.. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he...remembers to have felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 278 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my- own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet \ he...to have .felt before, but he feels ,it. with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...my own affrights me with its echoes.. i • i i • He who reads thofe lines enjoys far a mo-* ment the powers of a poet; he feels what he remembers to have felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 474 pages
...me hear Thy voice—my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thofe lines enjoys fora mpment the powers of a poet; he feels what he remembers to have felt before, .but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but mee.ts it again amplified and expanded,... | |
| Several Hands - 1781 - 588 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. * He who reads thofe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before, but be feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1791 - 490 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet ; he...feels what he remembers to have felt before, but he fee's it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...fpeak to me, and let me hear 'I by voice—my own affrights me with its echoes. He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a moment the powers of a poet; he...remembers to have felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
| 1795 - 846 pages
...fpeak to me, »nd let me hear Thy voice — my own affrights me with its echo». He who reads thefe lines enjoys, for a moment, the powers of a poet ; he feels what he bers to hare felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognize» a fairilir... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1797 - 278 pages
...hear . Thy voice my own affright* me with its echoes. " He who reads thefe lines enjoys for a momenc the powers of a poet ; he feels what he remembers to have felt before, but he feels it with great increafe of fenfibility ; he recognizes a familiar image, but meets it again amplified and expanded,... | |
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