 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1872 - 524 pages
...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 strokes presiding truth impress'd, And unresisted passion storm'd the breast. Then Jonson... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 pages
...change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then 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 passions storm 'd the breast.' DR. JOHNSON.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...grow dim, * An evident plagiarism of the ex-Bishop's from Dr. Johnson : — " Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain : His powerful strokes presiding Truth confess'd, And unresisting Passion storm'd the breast." t This line... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...grow dim, * An evident plagiarism of the ex-Bishop's from Dr. Johnson : — " Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain : His powerful strokes presiding Truth confess'd, And unresisting Passion storm'd the breast." t This line... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1878 - 750 pages
...change of many-color'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then 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 unrcsisted Passion storm'd the breast. JOHNSON. A loose... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...each foible forth to public view : sa Exhausted worlds, and then 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... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1881 - 738 pages
...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 strokes presiding truth impress'd, And unresisted passion storm'd the breast. Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1883 - 782 pages
...change of many-colored lifelie 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 strokes presiding Truth impress'd, And unresistecl Passion storm'd the breast. 4563 Dr. Johnson:... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 pages
...change of many-color'd life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then 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. Samuel Johnson.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1885 - 440 pages
...Zeal, cfc.] An evident plagiarism of the exBishop.s from Dr. Johnson : — " Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil'd after him in vain : His powerful strokes presiding Truth confess'd, And unresisting Passion storm'd the breast." — C. 2 Sixteens.]... | |
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WHEN Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes First rear'd the stage, immortal Shakspeare 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... 
