 Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments: and could no more represent, by their slender conceits 'and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D. - Page 19by Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he, who dissects 3, wa-bc»m with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. G * Whaf What they wanted however of the sublime, thev endeavoured to supply 1 h.yperbole ; their amplification... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he, who dissects * sun-beam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. C a WJiar What they wanted liowever of the cublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...boured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. reason but fancy behind . them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of fife, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a...but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of donfused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...a summer noon. "What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hy. perbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy be. hind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not onlj could not be credited,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1811 - 420 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a...confused magnificence, that not only could not be eredited, but couid rot be imagined. wit upon false conceits, they likewise .sometimes struck out unexpected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a...to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no linjits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a...sublime they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplifi' cation had no limits ; they left not only reason but ' fancy behind them ; and produced combinations... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. What they wanted however of the subh'me, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of )ife, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a...limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; .andjn-pdnced combinations of confused magnificence, that noLonJjLcouldjiot. be credited, but could.... | |
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