 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...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...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great rises neither human actions nor human manners.* The...which he can be engaged • beholds no condition attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts arc always general, and consist in positions not limited...great things cannot have escaped former observation. Thc'ir attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watcli for novelty could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...they hoped had never been said before. 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 - 1854 - 468 pages
...with great propriety that subtlot), which in its original imjwrt means exilitj- of particles, is Inkon in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction....things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic -, they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - 1857 - 408 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 - 1858 - 418 pages
...ancTih deserTptrons not descending to minuteness. It is with grBOlT'pTOpriety that subtlety, whicK in its original import means exility of particles,...Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have_ little hope oTgreatncss; fgt greaTThTngs cannot have escaped former observation. Their atteinpir... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness, by dispersion. Great hey had risen. And when houses are thus built, we...disdain to treat with respect and thoughtfulness attempts were always analytic; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent,... | |
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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... 
