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.... Lives - Página 11editado por - 1800Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 páginas
...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....writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were... | |
| René Wellek - 1981 - 378 páginas
...underlies the discussion of the metaphysical poets. Johnson objects to their failure to reach the sublime. "Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness." " We find this criterion again and again: Butler's Hudibras cannot last, because it is full of allusions... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 páginas
...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... | |
| Irma S. Lustig - 308 páginas
...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... | |
| Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 páginas
...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....subtlety, which in its original import means exility [ie, thinness, meagreness] of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction.... | |
| Susan Glickman - 2000 - 234 páginas
...apprenticeship to the picturesque emphasis on pictorial accuracy, now tended towards Dr Johnson's opinion that: "Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness."36 So he rewrites Descriptive Sketches in the sixth book of the 1805 Prelude; in the eleventh,... | |
| René Wellek - 1978 - 768 páginas
...often an individual, in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.« 36. Lives, I (Cowley), 21: »Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.« 37. ebenda, / (Butler), 213—14; / (Cowley), 46; Raleigh, S. 158—9. 3 8. ebenda, j (Gray), 441:... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 474 páginas
...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, whichin its original import means exility of particles, is...writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts... | |
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