 analytick," they "broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes of life, than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism can exhibit the wide effulgence...  Wonders, Marvels, and Monsters in Early Modern Culture - Side 310redigeret af - 1999 - 341 siderBegrænset visning - Om denne bog
 | 1867 - 878 sider
...cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every imago into fragments ; and could no more represent, by their...can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon." The origin of this school of poetry in England is traced back by Johnson to Donne, whom we have already... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 sider
...hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments;...nature, or the scenes of life, than he, who dissects a mil-beam with a jjrism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer neon. e * .' V/hat they wanted... | |
 | 1812 - 656 sider
...a: d in descriptions not descending to minuteness. These metaphysical writers were always analytic: they broke every image- into fragments, and could...laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, than he who dissects a sunbeam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon." Johnson... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 sider
...hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments;...nature, or the scenes of life, than he, who dissects * sun-beam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. Ca WJiar What they wanted... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 sider
...of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments;...can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 sider
...hope of greatness: for greatthingscannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent, by l heir slender conceits and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes of life,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 292 sider
...of greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick ; they broke every image into fragments;...can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 sider
...hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments;...can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 sider
...hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments;...can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 452 sider
...greatness ; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic ; they broke every image into fragments ; and could...can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification... | |
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