 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....  The Poetical Works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems - Page xviby Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles, George Gilfillan - 1857 - 368 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - English literature - 1802 - 614 pages
...the pathetic, for they did not attempt 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.' p. xii. Cowley, Butler, Roscommon, Rochester, Buckingham, Dorset, Waller, Otway, Phillips, Wycherley,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...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.... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - English literature - 1806 - 294 pages
...pathetick ; 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...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 - English poetry - 1809 - 296 pages
...pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of fliought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden...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 pages
...pathetick ; 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...littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always genera}, and consist in positions not limited by exceptions, and in descriptions not descending to... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...; for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought, which at once fills the whola mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment,...in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is witfi great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...pathetick ; 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 admi- ' ration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...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...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 pages
...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...always general, and consist in positions not limited by exfceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It, as with great propriety that subtilty,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...t...&udden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimityisproducedbyaggregation,and 3/_ littleness by dispersion. Great thoughts are always...descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtilty, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning... | |
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