 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 páginas
...naturally variable, but houg ' truth and reason are always the same. — Rasselas, ch. 18. . • • Great thoughts are always general, and " consist in positions not limited by exception-;. and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.! -r-Liyes of the Poets, II., p. 44.... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...mind, and of which 7* 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...whole mind, and of which 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 subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...whole mind, and of which 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 subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 páginas
...whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. J It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in it§ original import means exility of particles,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...dispersion. C Great thoughts are always general, and consist impositions not limited by^exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness....its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Thosejyriters— who- lay on the watch, for -novelty -xould have litflenope of greatness ; for great... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to mi• nuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...attainment. Test the truth of such phrases as " Sublimity is produced by aggregation and littleness of dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness" (p. 47). IV. THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY The critical issue of this essay, aside from the opening anathema... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 páginas
...particular direction. The basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. If that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is, upon... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1911 - 352 páginas
...impertinent jokes, white lies, and shorl fits of pettishness ending in sunny good humour. (Macaulay.) 24. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. (S. Johnson.) 25. And many more: but it is enough to instance in a few. (S. Johnson.) 26. Cromwell... | |
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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.... 
