This expression the imagination of his examiners had impregnated with treason, and the doctor was enjoined to explain them. Having fixed his attention on Cowley as a model, he has attempted in some sort to rival him, and has written a Hymn to Darkness , evidently as a counter-part to Cowley's Hymn to Light. I will not transcribe it. He seems to think that there is an East absolute and positive where the Morning rises. He ought to have remembered, that infinite knowledge can never wonder.
All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.
The Life of Thomas Yalden. Use this information responsibly. The Life of Thomas Yalden. The Penn State Archive of Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets . Kathleen Nulton Kemmerer.