 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pagina’s
...and confirt in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not dcfcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lie on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pagina’s
...and confift in pofitions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | 1796 - 692 pagina’s
...and conlift in poCuons not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions DOC defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import nu-ans exility of particles; it taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of dillinclion. Thofe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pagina’s
...and confift in politions not limited by exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minuteneis. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | 1801 - 860 pagina’s
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that fubtilty (which in its original import means exility of particles)...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinftion. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs, for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pagina’s
...vol. 2, p. 149. SUBLIMITY. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by ditpersion. — Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. Life of Cowley. SCIENCE, Divide and conquer, is a principle equally, just in science as in policy.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 pagina’s
...exceptions, and in defcriptions not defcending to minutenefs. It is with great propriety that Subtelty, which in its original import means exility of particles,...is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of diftinction. Thofe writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatnefs ; for... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 pagina’s
...and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion....thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limhed by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pagina’s
...and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion....consist in/ positions not limited by exceptions, and in de- \ scriptions not descending to minuteness. It is I with great propriety that subtlety, which in... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 pagina’s
...and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always genera}, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to... | |
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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.... 
