 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - Počet stránok 358
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary fenfe, more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - Počet stránok 494
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary fenfe, more upon that from which the illuftration 1$ drawn than that to which it is applied,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 494
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary fcnfe, more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - Počet stránok 498
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary fenfe, more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - Počet stránok 478
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration, and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than thefecondary ienle, more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - Počet stránok 610
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupulous enumeration ; and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary fenfe, more upon that from which the illuftration is drawn than that to which it is applied.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - Počet stránok 714
...becomes ridiculous. Thus a! the power qf description is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration ; and th force of metaphors is lost, when the mind by the mention of particulars i Burned more upon the original than the secondary $ense, more upon that fron which the illustration... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - Počet stránok 476
...power of defcription is deftroyed by a fcrupuloin enumeration, and the force of metaphors is loft, when the mind by the mention of particulars is turned more upon the original than the fecondary fenfe, more upon that from which the illullration is drawn than that to which it is applied.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - Počet stránok 716
...generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but pretty, and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Thus all the...is destroyed by a scrupulous enumeration ; and the I'prce of metaphors is lost, when the mind by the mention of particulars is rurned more upon the original... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1806 - Počet stránok 294
...generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can be but pretty, and by claiming dignity becomes ridiculous. Thus all the...upon that from which the illustration is drawn than that to which it is applied. Of this we have a very eminent example in the ode intituled The Afuse,... | |
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The fault of Cowley, and perhaps of all the writers of the metaphysical race, is that of pursuing his thoughts to the last ramifications, by which he loses the grandeur of generality ; for of the greatest things the parts are little ; what is little can... 
