 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admi- ' ration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 470 страници
...more within their reach than (tjhe pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and -expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...always general, and consist in positions not limited by exfceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It, as with great propriety that subtilty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity isproduced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 страници
...their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. den astonishment, and the second rational admiration....descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 страници
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which, at once, fills the whole mind, and...that subtilty, which, in its original import, means exilitv of particles, is taken, in its metaphorical meaning, for nicety of distinction. Those writers... | |
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Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration.... 
