"Extasy" Quotes from Famous Books
... point, as might make us suppose that the generous aid of Johnson had been imparted to his friend. Mr. Thomas Warton made this remark to me; and, in support of it, quoted from the poem entitled The Bastard, a line, in which the fancied superiority of one 'stamped in Nature's mint with extasy[482],' is contrasted with a regular lawful descendant of ... — Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1 • Boswell, Edited by Birkbeck Hill |