 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...descriptions not 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 for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...descriptions not 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 for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 366 pages
...descriptions not descending to minuteness. J It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in it§ 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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Criticism - 1896 - 330 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 alway sanalytic;... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - Criticism - 1898 - 360 pages
...recognized, however, as a legitimate element of the comical or humorous. Those writers (Cowley, etc.) who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness. . . . Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments. 1781.... | |
 | William John Courthope - English poetry - 1903 - 590 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...descriptions not descending to mi• nuteness. 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...descriptions not 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 for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness ;... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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. 
