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 | John Adam Weisse - English language - 1878 - 748 pages
...thought, which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced...writers, who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which 70 the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration....descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility * of particles, is taken in its metaphorical... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1881 - 536 pages
...impertinent jokes , white lies , and short fits of pettishness ending in sunny good humour. Ib. 160. Great thoughts are always general, and consist in...and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. Johnson, Cowley 16 (W.). And many more: but it is enough to instance in a few. Ib. 53. (To instance... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1886 - 690 pages
...and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which 7* the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration....descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that 75 subtlety,* which in its original import means exility * of particles. is taken in its metaphorical... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...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....writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 286 pages
...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....writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 pages
...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....writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...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....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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 pages
...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....writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were... | |
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