It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for... Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal - Página 1editado por - 1780Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| British poets - 1822 - 348 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 páginas
...consist in positions not limited by •exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those rf writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little ' hope of greatness... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 páginas
...exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which, in its original import, means exility of particles,...taken, in its metaphorical meaning, for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 páginas
...descriptions not descending to minutenees. J t is with great propriety that subtlety, which u its origamI import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
| 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 - 1837 - 752 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. ever know. The reader finds no transaction in which he can be engaged • beholds no condition distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watcli for novelty could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 páginas
...and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness, for... | |
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