 | sir Samuel Egerton Brydges (bart.) - 1825 - 340 pages
...been left undeveloped till so late an age of the world. " Those writers," says Johnson on Cowley, " who lay on the watch for " novelty could have little hope of great" ness ; for great things cannot have es" caped former observations." But the value of what is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1826 - 430 pages
...descriptions not descending to minutenees. J t is with great propriety that subtlety, which u its origamI import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those 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 always analytic... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original ngaged • beholds no condition distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that Subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watcli for novelty could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness, for... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...means exilitj- of particles, is Inkon in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those 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 always analytic... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which, in its original import, means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Richard Crashaw - Emblems - 1857 - 408 pages
...means exility of particles, is taken, in its metaphorical meaning, for nicety of distinction. Those 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 always analytic;... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for... | |
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Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. 
