| 1796 - 690 páginas
...a fubjeft on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfme of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the...requires a minute attention, and employs the memory tather than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 280 páginas
...fubjedl on which too much •could not be faid, on which- he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the...in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He Cent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1779 - 510 páginas
...too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of extravagance. 4 The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of...in the .wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, -into worlds •where only... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 302 páginas
...fubject on which too much could not be. faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the...than the fancy. Milton's delight was to fport in the wade regions of poffibility; reality was a fcene too narrow for his mind. He fe.nt his faculties out... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 páginas
...delight by its fertility.' ' The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiatc his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they...in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow, for his mind. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only imagination... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 páginas
...fiibjeft on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the...appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they are, re- ' quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Milton's delight was... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 páginas
...cenfure of extravagance. 4 The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiatc his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they...attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy. Mikoii'a delight was to fport in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow,... | |
| 1780 - 596 páginas
...too much coold not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy without the cenfure of extravagance. 4 The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fatiate his appetite of greacnefs. To paint things as they are, re' quires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 páginas
...the cenfure of extravagance. The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life, did not fariate his appetite of greatnefs. To paint things as they...in the wide regions of poffibility ; reality was a fcene too narrow for . his rnjnd. He fent his faculties out upon difcovery, into worlds where only... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 páginas
...a fubject on which too much could not be faid, on which he might tire his fancy Without the cenfure of extravagance, The appearances of nature, and the occurrences of life!, did not fariate his appetite of greatnefs, To paint things as they are, requires a minute attention, and employs... | |
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