 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - عدد الصفحات: 294
...and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions not limhed by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick j they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always genera}, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions,...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could no more represent,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - عدد الصفحات: 296
...import means exility of particles, is taken 1 in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinc- ' tion. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick ; thejf broke every image into fragments ; and could nc more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...rational admi- ' ration. 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,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - عدد الصفحات: 560
...positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is witfi great propriety that subtlety, which in its original...things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic; they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...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 mofe represent,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...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 - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in positions...could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannothaveescapedformer observation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 470
...exfceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It, as with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles,...lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope ofgreatness4, for great things cannothave escapedformer observation. Their attempts were always analytic... | |
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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... 
