 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 страници
...their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced...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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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...by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, arid consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 страници
...principles important to our purpose. " Sublimity," he declares, employing the word under discussion, "is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion....and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. . . . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1964 - 177 страници
...complaint against the metaphysical poets: "they never attempted that comprehension and expanse that fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect...astonishment, and the second rational admiration." How can a writer endeavor to attain a "comprehension and expanse that fills the whole mind"? Assuming... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 страници
...commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. . . . Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. . . . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great... | |
 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - 314 страници
...wits. It lacks the explosive and expansive effect: they never attempted that comprehension and eipanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration . . . Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more... | |
 | Claude Arnaud - 1992 - 394 страници
...also operates at a high level of generality. "Great thoughts are always general," wrote Dr. Johnson, "and consist in positions not limited by exceptions,...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness." When the aphorist stylishly remarks upon the conduct of human behavior — and without style, that... | |
 | Irma S. Lustig - 308 страници
...metaphoric. A typical and characteristic expression of his position may be found in his "Life of Cowley": "Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.""' He tells Boswell, "he always laboured when he said a good thing" (3: 260, 5: 77), by which he sometimes... | |
 | Alan McNairn - 1997 - 332 страници
...swayed a jury of aesthetes. The sublime, said by Samuel Johnson to be the "comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and...effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration,"20 found its source, according to Burke, in "whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 страници
...general terms. "Great thoughts are always general," Johnson was later to write in his "Life of Cowley," "and consist in positions not limited by exceptions,...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness" (Lives, I, 11). Johnson explains with some precision in the Preface what it means to write criticism... | |
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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.... 
