 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.  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 36by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. This, being nrcessary, 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. 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 hia poetry with his... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...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 his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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 out of sight, and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts. But he has unhappily perplexed his poetry with his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...invested them with form and matter. This being necessary, was therefore defensible ; and he should Jiave 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 unhappilyperplexed his poetry with his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...therefore invested them with form and matter. 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... | |
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