 He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have been hitherto perused, so that no man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : " When pulpit, drum...  The British Essayists - Strana 199úprava: - 1808Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | George Atherton Aitken - 1898 - Počet stránok 490
...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, and There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over, more frequently quoted, than... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1906 - Počet stránok 414
...of these doggerel rimes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick, and There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ress over, more frequently quoted, than... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1909 - Počet stránok 562
...sense.' He has read all our poets with 10 particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, 15 Was beat with ttst instead of a stick ; and that the wonderful... | |
 | Austin Dobson - 1914 - Počet stránok 326
...the sense. He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...man has found the sound of a drum in this distich : 1 When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, 1 Was beat with fist instead of a stick ; ' and that the wonderful... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1915 - Počet stránok 464
...these doggerel rhymes than of the parts that really deserve admiration. I am sure I have heard the Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic. Was beat with fist instead of a stick, and There was an ancient sage philosopher Who had read Alexander Ross over, more frequently quoted than... | |
 | 1922 - Počet stránok 570
...sense.' He has read all our poets with particular attention to thig delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...stick ; and that the wonderful lines upon honour and a huhble have hitherto passed without notice : Honour is like the glassy bubble, Which cost philosophers... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1968 - Počet stránok 400
...sense.” 1 ° He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...philosophers such trouble, Where one part crack'd, the whole does fly, And wits are crack'd to find out why. 12 In these verses, says Minim, we have two striking... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - Počet stránok 655
...sense." 26 He has read all our poets with particular attention to this delicacy of versification, and wonders at the supineness with which their works have...man has found the sound of a drum in this distich, 27 When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick; 28 and that the wonderful... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1961 - Počet stránok 278
...is, reputation, Pos. For positive. Tie signs of our substantives. The omission of the article, cf. "When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic, Was beat with fist instead of a stick." I/Estrange. "Swift had very much to do with the rescuing of Style, by the hands of Addison and the... | |
 | 1855 - Počet stránok 408
...sermon. Startling and awakening it is not ; for though it does certainly remind us of those happy times when " Pulpit, drum ecclesiastic. Was beat with fist instead of a stick," it wants the energy and honesty of the stout old fanatics who beat it. Amusing and entertaining are... | |
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