 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pages
...different? , "i .-.. to To see this fleet upon the ocean move, . ., . \..f{ ,, ( Angels draw wide the curtains of the skies; , , . And Heaven,...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. .,.(' .d.ii j' The description of the attempt at Bergen will afford a very complete specimen of the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different? To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels draw wide the curtains of the skies; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, ' r; For tapers made two glaring comets rise. The description of the attempt at Bergen will afford... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...which are, indeed, perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different : To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And heav'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. The description of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 508 pages
...which are, indeed, perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different : To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And heav'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. The description of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...which are, indeed, perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different : To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And heav'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. The description of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...which are, indeed, perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different : To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And heav'n, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. The description of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...follow, which are indeed perhaps indecently hyperbolical, but certainly in a mode totally different ? To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...Bergen will afford a very complete specimen of the description* in this poem : And now approach'd their fleet from India, fraught With all the riches... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1830 - 492 pages
...sorry to observe that the following bombashcstuff dropped from the pen of Dryden. To see this Beet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. Another species of false sublime is still more faulty than bombast ; and that is, to force elevation... | |
 | John Dryden - 1832 - 342 pages
...soon obey ; So hear the scaly herd when Proteus blows, And so to pasture follow through the sea. 60 To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide...lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. si So hear the scaly herd] The first edition erroneously has here. T. 59 when Proteus blows] ' Coeruleus... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 754 pages
...thia fleet upon the ocean more, . Augcls drew wide the curtains of the skies ; And Heaven, as ifthere red by any other person ; for his conversation was...entertaining, and his address so pleasing, that few t fiord a very complete specimen of the descriptions in this poem : And now approached their fleet... | |
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To see this fleet upon the ocean move, Angels drew wide the curtains of the skies; And Heaven, as if there wanted lights above, For tapers made two glaring comets rise. 
