 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...vanity divested of her robes, power deprived of her sceptre, and hypocrisy without her mask. (5IMIJ.E. A SIMILE, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1881 - 570 pages
...life was ever after at a stand. To mention the particular beauties of the Essay would be unprofitably tedious ; but I cannot forbear to observe, that the...a traveller in the Alps, is perhaps the best that 1 poetry can shew. A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must shew... | |
 | 1883 - 884 pages
...concludes — " Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise." " The comparison," says Samuel Johnson, " of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey...Alps, is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. . . . [It] has no useless parts, yet affords a striking picture by itself ; it makes the foregoing... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1883 - 924 pages
...— " Hills peep o'er hills, and Alps on Alps arise. ' ' " The comparison," says Samuel Johnson, " of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey...Alps, is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. ... [It] has no useless parts, yet affords a striking picture by itself ; it makes the foregoing... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...life was ever after at a stand. To mention the particular beauties of the essay, would be unprofitably tedious ; but I cannot forbear to observe that the...Alps, is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must show it to the understanding... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1871 - 542 pages
...poetry can show. A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject ; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display...to the fancy with greater dignity ; but either of tnese qualities may be sufficient to recommend it. In didactic poetry, of which the great purpose is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 pages
...life was ever after at a stand. To mention the particular beauties of the Essay would be unprofitably tedious ; but I cannot forbear to observe, that the...simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble thesubject ; must shew it Jo_tliejaB3CTst^ding_in aTclearer v1ew, and display it to the fancy with... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...apt, the most proper, the most sublime of any in the English language. "The comparison," he says, " of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey...the Alps is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. It has no useless parts, yet affords a striking picture by itself; it makes the foregoing position... | |
 | William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...apt, the most proper, the most sublime of any in the English language. " The comparison," he says, " , and show. It has no useless parts, yet affords a striking picture by itself; it makes the foregoing position... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 236 pages
...life was ever after at a stand. To mention the particular beauties of the Essay would be \inprofitably tedious: but I cannot forbear to observe, that the...journey of a traveller in the Alps, is perhaps the best 30 that English poetry can show. A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject;... | |
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Essay would be unprofitably tedious; but I cannot forbear to observe, that the comparison of a student's progress in the sciences with the journey of a traveller in the Alps, is perhaps the best that English poetry can show. A simile, to be perfect, must... 
