 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - Liczba stron: 670
...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...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - Liczba stron: 330
...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...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original... | |
 | William John Courthope - 1903 - Liczba stron: 590
...Johnson's description, in the same Life, of the characteristics of the " metaphysical " poets : — Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Liczba stron: 530
...from thickest of their conceits, —in the Hamlet, vi 292. bewildering mazes of tropes and of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the...produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. C Great thoughts are always general, and consist impositions not limited by^exceptions, and in descriptions... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - Liczba stron: 424
...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...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - Liczba stron: 424
...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...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to mi• nuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - Liczba stron: 210
...particular direction. The basis of all excellence is truth : he that professes love ought to feel its power. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. If that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and... | |
 | Gustav Wendt - 1911 - Liczba stron: 352
...impertinent jokes, white lies, and shorl fits of pettishness ending in sunny good humour. (Macaulay.) 24. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. (S. Johnson.) 25. And many more: but it is enough to instance... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - Liczba stron: 436
...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...by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, arid consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness.... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - Liczba stron: 438
...their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced...consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original... | |
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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.... 
