 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 - Page 11edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...and confilt in portions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinfiion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...and confift in pofttions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...and confift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...and conlift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftincYion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of grcatnds; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...and confirt in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not dcfcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lie on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...and confift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | English poetry - 1801 - 860 pages
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that fubtilty (which in its original import means exility of particles)...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs, for... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...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....distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for invelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...vol. 2, p. 149. SUBLIMITY. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by ditpersion. — Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. Life of Cowley. SCIENCE, Divide and conquer, is a principle equally, just in science as in policy.... | |
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