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" 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.... "
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 6

Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 470 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....always general, and consist in positions not limited by exfceptions, and in descriptions not descending to minuteness. It, as with great propriety that subtilty,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1821 - 502 pages
...which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration. Sublimity isproduced by aggregation, and littleness by dispersion. Great...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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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 306 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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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 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....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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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With Murphy's Essay, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 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....metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those rf writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little ' hope of greatness ; for great things...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets

Samuel Johnson - Great Britain - 1825 - 508 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...
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