 WHEN Learning's Triumph o'er her barb'rous Foes First rear'd the Stage, immortal Shakespeare rose; Each Change of many-colour'd Life he drew, Exhausted Worlds, and then imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded Reign, And panting Time toil'd after...  Works - Page 163by Samuel Johnson - 1809Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 798 pages
...and minuteness — ' Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, mid then imagiu'd new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain !' Thus has his name floated down the stream of public opinion, emblazoned by the applauding voice... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 pages
...her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd...presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion »torm'd the breast. Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent... | |
 | Thomas Davies - 1818 - 262 pages
...no man, who had read it a hundred times, would purdon. W hen Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose...new : Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And punting Timetoil'd after him in vain. His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisting... | |
 | William Oxberry - 2015 - 374 pages
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 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 368 pages
...her barb'rous foes' First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of mariy-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd...reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast. Then Jonson... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 668 pages
...her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd...impress'd, And unresisted passion storm'd the breast. JOHNSON. Upon Shakspeare's Monument at Stratford-upon-Avon. Great Homer's birth seven rival cities... | |
 | 1821 - 436 pages
...immortal Sn AKSPEARE rose ; Each change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful strokes presiding truth impress")], And unresisting passion storm'd the breast." DR. JOHNSON.... | |
 | William Davis - 1821 - 776 pages
...and truly said — "Each change of many-coloured life he drew, "Exhausted Worlds, and then imagined new: "Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, "And panting time toil'd after him in vain." I may perhaps be excused for alluding to a projected Guide or Classed Index, to refresh the recollection... | |
 | 1822 - 502 pages
...the man whom Johnson writes thus of: Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted old worlds, then imagin'd new ; Existence saw him spurn her bounded...reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. Though fancy is a meteor, of bright but transitory lustre, irregular in its motion, and delusive in... | |
 | 1822 - 292 pages
...immortal Shakspeare rose; Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain. His powerful strokes presiding truth impress'd, And unresisted passion storm'd the breast. Then Jonson... | |
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