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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.... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Lives of the poets - Page 16
by Samuel Johnson - 1825
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 358 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehenfion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which i the the firft effect is fudden aftonifhment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - History - 1780 - 726 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick; for they never attempted that comprehenfion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the firil efFeft is fudden aftonifhment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

Books - 1780 - 596 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never attempted that comprehenGon and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the urit tried is fudden alioniihment, .and the fccond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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Monthly Review; Or New Literary Journal, Volume 61

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 590 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetic; for they never attempted that comprehenfion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the lint eftcci is fudden aAonifhment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 494 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehenfion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the firft effect is fudden aftonimment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehenlion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the firft effect is fudden aftonifhment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehenlion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the firft effect is fudden aftonifhment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick; for they never attempted that comprehenfion and expanfe of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the fuft eflect is fudden aftontthment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they never attempted that comprehenfion and expanle of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the firft effect is fudden aftonifhment, and the fecond rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation,...
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Lives

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...and expanse of thought whic'fi at once fAluhe whole mind, and of which the first effect is'sudderi astonishment, and the second rational admiration....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...
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