 WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous 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...  The Poems of Ossian - Page cxcv1807Full view - About this book
 | Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1901 - 1080 pages
...imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain ; Then Jonson came, instructed from the school To please in method, and invent by rule; His studious... | |
 | Austin Dobson - English literature - 1903 - 360 pages
...for the opening of Drury Lane in September, 1747. This, besides the well-known lines on Shakespeare, '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,' also includes... | |
 | Jeannette Leonard Gilder - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...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 came, instructed from the school To please in method, and invent by rule; His studious... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 pages
...WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous 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 him in vain. His powerful... | |
 | William Stanley Braithwaite - English poetry - 1909 - 1334 pages
...7"HEN Learning's triumph o'er her barbarous 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 him in vain. His powerful... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1911 - 140 pages
...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 came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent in rule; His studious... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - Quotations, English - 1911 - 784 pages
...imagin'd 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. 4563 Dr. Johnson: Prol. at Opening of Drury L. Theatre, BHAME. 0, shame! where is ihy blush? 4564 Shaks.... | |
 | William Winter - Actors - 1916 - 610 pages
...imagin'd 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." — DB. JOHNSON. L CYMBELINE. "... Whispering tongues can poison truth, And constancy lives in realms... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Authors, English - 1918 - 186 pages
...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 came, instructed from the school, To please in method, and invent by rule ; His studious... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Literature - 1923 - 594 pages
...the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, In 1747 (Works of Samuel Johnson, td. A. Murphy, London, 1824, I, 28): Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then Imagin'd new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign. »"See above, pp. 152, 153. 226 tell, then, Johnson's reflections... | |
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