| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 oldal
...among the dead men.' He might well rejoice at the death of that which he could 30 not have killed. Every reader of every party, since personal malice...occasion was the genius of Addison more vigorously 35 exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear. His Trial of Count... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1909 - 562 oldal
...among the dead men.' He might well rejoice at the death of that which he could 30 not have killed. Every reader of every party, since personal malice...once inflamed the "nation are read only as effusions x of wit, must wish for more of the Whig Examiners; for on no occasion was the genius of Addison more... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1910 - 220 oldal
...says Johnson, " at the death of that which he could not have killed." " On no occasion," he adds, " was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted,...superiority of his powers more evidently appear." The only use which Addison appears to have made of the favor with which he was regarded by the Tories... | |
| Catholic University of America - 1912 - 778 oldal
...Tory, speaks in the highest terms of the merits of the Whig Examiner. " On no occasion," he says, " was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted,...superiority of his powers more evidently appear." 3 A few years later, while the Rising of the " '15 " in favour of the Old Pretender was still raging... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1913 - 824 oldal
...says Johnson, ' at the death of that which he could not have killed.' ' On no occasion,' he adds, ' was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted,...superiority of his powers more evidently appear.' The only use which Addison appears to have made of the favour with which he was regarded by the Tories... | |
| Edward Alan Bloom, Lillian D. Bloom - 1995 - 508 oldal
...rejoice,' says Johnson, 'at the death of that which he could not have killed.1 'On no occasion,' he adds, 'was the genius of Addison more vigorously exerted,...superiority of his powers more evidently appear.' The only use which Addison appears to have made of the favour with which he was regarded by the Tories... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 418 oldal
...down among the dead men*." He might well rejoice at the death of that which he could not have killed. Every reader of every party, since personal malice...the superiority of his powers more evidently appear. His Trial of Count Tariff, written to expose the Treaty of Commerce with France, lived no longer than... | |
| 1878 - 900 oldal
...exultation at the failure of the Examiner. " On no occasion was the genius of Addison more powerfully exerted, and on none did the superiority of his powers more evidently appear. Swift might well rejoice at the death of that which he could not kill." The condition of the English... | |
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