 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1821 - 502 pages
...exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles,...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 484 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 484 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts • are always general, and consist in positions...metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those rf writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little ' hope of greatness ; for great things... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...second, rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which, in its original import, means exilitv of particles, is taken, in its metaphorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...second, rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which, in its original import, means exility of particles, is taken, in its metaphorical... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 512 pages
...second, rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which, in its original import, means exility of particles, is taken, in its metaphorical... | |
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... 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. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by... 
