 The good and evil of Eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness, content with calm belief and humble adoration.  The Annual Register - Page 4571799Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 280 pages
...poetical pleafure muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good...for the wings of wit; the mind finks un.der them in paffive helplcfihcfs, content'o 4 . -with with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however,... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1779 - 510 pages
...poetical pleafure mud be fuch as human imagination can at lead conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive helpleffnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration.' Concerning Butler very little... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 302 pages
...muft be fuch as human -imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human flrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity...for the wings of wit; the mind finks under them in paffive helplcflhefs, content o 4 with 200 MILTON, with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...poetical pleafure mutt be fuch as human imagination can at leait conceive, and poetical terror fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in pallive helpleflnefs, contentwith calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...poetical pleafurc muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may. combat. The good...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paflive helplefihefs, content with calm, belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...poetical pleafure muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good...are too ponderous^ for the wings of wit ; the mind links under them in pafuve helplefsnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...poetical terrour fuch as human ftrcngth and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity arc too ponderous for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive paflive helplefsnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...muft be fuch as human imagination can at lead conceive ; and poetical terrours fuch as human flrength and fortitude may combat. The good and evil of Eternity...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paffive helpleffnefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 518 pages
...and superfluous. We shall now, therefore, consider it in another point of view : recollecting, that the good and evil of eternity are too ponderous for the wings of wit, and that it would be wise for free-thinkers themselves, were they to be morally content with calm belief,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...poetical pleafure muft be fuch as human imagination can at leaft conceive, and poetical terrour fuch as human ftrength and fortitude may combat. The good...for the wings of wit ; the mind finks under them in paflive helpleflhefs, content with calm belief and humble adoration. Known truths, however, may take... | |
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