 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - עמוד 167מאת Samuel Johnson - 1806תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | Henry Neele - 1830 - 582 דפים
...Shakspeare : — " 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 I" > Shakspeare's contemporaries have, since the publication of Mr. Lambe's Specimens, and the Critical... | |
 | 1831 - 1040 דפים
...words ? " 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 !" Many-coloured life! That is fine. Change ! Good. Shift its position but an inch — and it shifts... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1831 - 542 דפים
...idle to solicit their assistance, in two lines of supreme fustian and nonsense, Johnson saya of him, " et I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquor« If he spurnM the reign of existence, he must hare plunged into some illimitable void, if there be such,... | |
 | David Booth - 1831 - 408 דפים
...Shakspeare 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 him in vain." Johnson. The poets, in all ages, have personified abstractions, and invented tales concerning beings... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1832 - 364 דפים
...Shakspeare rose ; Each change of many• color '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 stur1n'd the breast. JOHNSON. A... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 דפים
...SHAK.SPEAKE rose -f b3 Eacli change of many-coloured life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new ! Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And PANTING TIME toil'd after him in vain! His powerful strokes presiding Truth confess'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast! The inventive... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 דפים
...three centuries, by a second Prospero, now no more, of whom it may be said, as of Shakspeare, that— " Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain." At the nod of this magician, the wreaths of ivy fade away, like mists before the rising sun— and,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1836 - 570 דפים
...to solicit their assistance. In two lines of supreme fustian and nonsense, John* s^^eays of him, <( kespeare vain.'1 If he snurnM the reign of existence, he must have plunged into some illimitable void, if there... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 448 דפים
...Shakspeare 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...presiding Truth impress'd, And unresisted Passion storm 'd the breast. Then Jonson came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - 1837 - 362 דפים
...Shakspeare 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...him in vain. His pow'rful strokes presiding Truth impross'd, And unresisted Passion storm'd the breast. Then Jonson came, instructed from the school,... | |
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