 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 - 1826 - 430 pages
...prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he, who dissects a sun-beam with a prism, can exhihit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. What they wanted,...not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced comhinations of confustd magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...labored 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...noon. What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they 14* endeavored to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...scenes of life, than he who dissects :i sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a Bummer noon. What they wanted, however, of the sublime they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole: their amplifications had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 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 summer noon. endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - English language - 1878 - 828 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or scenes of life, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon." 170 common words, among which times. 8 1 particles. Hence, Johnson's style requires about 170 common... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...labored 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. 11. What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeav-85 ored to supply by hyperbole : their amplification... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...labored 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. 11. What they wanted, however, of the sublime, they endeav-8; ored to supply by hyperbole : their amplification... | |
 | William Swinton - English literature - 1888 - 686 pages
...equivalents for the italicized words : " What they wanted, however, of the sublime, thoy endeavored to supply by hyperbole: their amplification had no...behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnifiesnes that not only could not be eredited, but could not be imagined." 189 12. Yet great labor,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life, than he who «lissects a sunbeam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence of a...sublime they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplifications had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; imd produced combinations... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 286 pages
...labored 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...noon. What they wanted, however, of the sublime they endeavored to supply by hyperbole ; their amplifications had no limits; they left not only reason but... | |
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