 | Richard Lloyd - 1825 - 392 páginas
...night, and engender a more salubrious state of atmosphere. It is well observed by Dr. Johnson, ' that sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.' ' Does Demosthenes,' says abbe Maxiry, ' refute an argument r he does not discuss it, — he proposes... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 páginas
...whole mind, and which the first effect is sndden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consists in positions not limited by ez, and in descriptions not descending to minutenees. J t is with... | |
 | Charles Richardson - 1836 - 136 páginas
...xiü. 22. SUBTLE. Each man subtileth a sleight« Synne for to hide.— Piers Houhmm's Vision, v. 13876. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...its original import means exility of particles, is takes in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. SUB-VERT. Whan foreothe Ood had subvertid... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 páginas
...whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. rl hose writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ; for great things... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 472 páginas
...descriptions not iscending to minuteness! lF"1s with great "propriety "that subtlety, which iiTTfs original import means exility of particles, is taken...its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. 1618-1667. METAPHYSICAL POETS. 21 f Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 páginas
...whole mind ; and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which, in its... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1864 - 460 páginas
...whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and «itun» !!«• h, l» M ; ^either ^ »*t Wtt, ni*Amt*eA from its effects i imy \m mirn r^Kuo-Ay mA... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 páginas
...mind, and of which 70 the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity* is produced by aggregation, and littleness...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility * of particles, is taken in its metaphorical... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - 1881 - 536 páginas
...impertinent jokes , white lies , and short fits of pettishness ending in sunny good humour. Ib. 160. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. Johnson, Cowley 16 (W.). And many more: but it is enough to instance in a few. Ib. 53. (To instance... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 400 páginas
...the same. — Rasselas, ch. 18. Great thoughts are always general, and Great Thoughts . . . .. . , , consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. — Lives of the Poets, II., p. 24. Time will impair the body, and uses us well if it spares the mind.... | |
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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.... 
