 This, being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 173von Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not shew angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed hia poetry with his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit, and sometimes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 Seiten
...; and he lhould have fecured the confiftency of his fyftem, by keeping immateriality out of fight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts....But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philofophy. His infernal and celeftial powers are fometimes purefpirk, and fometimes animated body.... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...his philosophy. His infernal and celestial powers aic 6omctin.es pure spirit, and sometimes animated body. When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning... | |
 | John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 414 Seiten
...defenfible ; and he mould have fecured the confiftency of his fyftem, by keeping immateriality out of fight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts....But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philofophy. His infernal and celeftial powers are fometimes pure fpirit, and fometimes antmated body.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 Seiten
...immateriality sup. plied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...body. When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marl, he has a body; when, in his passage between Hell and the new world, he is in danger of sinking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not shew angels acting but by instruments of action; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he shbuld have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This...necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should Jiave secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality out of sight, and enticing his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This being necessary, was tbereJbre defensible ; and he should have secured the consistency of his system, by keeping immateriality... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not shew angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...body. When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marl, he has a body ; when, in his passage between Hell and the new world, he is in danger of sinking... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 Seiten
...immateriality supplied no images, and that he could not show angels acting but by instruments of action ; he therefore invested them with form and matter. This,...body. When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marl, he has a body; when, in his passage between Hell and the new world, he is in danger of sinking... | |
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