 ... what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men and the vicissitudes...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Pagina 8door Samuel Johnson - 1840Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pagina’s
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure ; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...the whole mind ; and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pagina’s
...good and evil, impassive :uid at leisure; as epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, ye! "A flee ran owre your parritch? " "Fanny snowkit at your bread?" My certie! Leddy been never said before. Nor wa« the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pagina’s
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. NOT was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pagina’s
...good and evil, impassive and at leisure; as Epicurean deities, making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never... | |
 | John Adam Weisse - 1878 - 828 pagina’s
...Most Eminent English Poets;' 1784. " Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the patheticlc ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse...fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pagina’s
...Shakespeare's thought — Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. 10. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the...thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which 70 the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity* is produced... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - 686 pagina’s
...makes the whole world kin." Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. 10. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the...whole mind, and of which /• the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity* is produced by aggregation, and... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pagina’s
...obscurity. According to him, " They were wholly employed on something unexpected and surprising. . . . Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation...to say what they hoped had never been said before." Yet, he acknowledged, " great labor, directed by great ability, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pagina’s
...Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. 10. Nor was the sublime tnore within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never...thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which 7* the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity * is produced... | |
 | William Swinton - 1887 - 686 pagina’s
...makes the whole world kin." Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. 10. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the...thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which t*the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity* is produced... | |
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