 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 - Página 167de Samuel Johnson - 1806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1831
...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
...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 - 351 páginas
...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
...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 - 252 páginas
...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
...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
...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
...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
...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,... | |
 | 1852
...of many-color41 life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imngin'd new ; Existence sew him яригп br:M > j^ f r - * ʥX 9k! kW ȋsQ *; dY ` p c powerful strokes presiding truth impressed, And unresbled passion storm'd the breast." Dr. Johnson.... | |
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