... that he who can read it without rapture may have merit as a reasoner, but must resign all pretensions to taste and sensibility. His imagination is in truth only too prolific : a world of itself, where he dwells in the midst of chimerical alarms, is... The Eclectic Review - Sivu 3441832Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
| 1806 - 310 sivua
...art. His images are so select, so rich with colours dipt in heaven, that whoever can read his works without rapture, may have merit as a reasoner, but must resign all pretensions to tastg and sensibility," GOLDSMITH.., .'" 'i To decry ancient literature, as some have done, is a vain... | |
| 1813 - 458 sivua
...composition ; so select in its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours " dipt in heaven," that he •who can read it without rapture,...sensibility. His imagination is in truth only too prolifick ; a world of itself, where he dwells in perpetual alarms, and starts, like Prospero, at the... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 764 sivua
...he who can read it without rapture ni-iv have merit as a reasoner, but mu-i resign all pictensions to taste and sensibility. His imagination is, in truth,...chimerical alarms, is the dupe of his own enchantments, aud starts, like Prospero, at the spectres of his own creation. His intellectual views, in general,... | |
| Robert Hall - 1821 - 148 sivua
...composition ; so select are its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours, " dipt in heaven," that he who can read it without rapture...the dupe of his own enchantments, and starts, like Prc-spero, at the spectres of his own creation. His intellectual views in general, however, are wide... | |
| 1822 - 394 sivua
...pathetic composition ; so select are its images, so fraught with tenderness, so rich with colours, ' dipt in heaven,' that he who can read it without rapture...must resign all pretensions to taste and sensibility. Burke's imagination is in truth only too prolific : a world of itself, where he dwells iu the midst... | |
| 1822 - 206 sivua
...rapture may have merit as a reasoner, but must resign all pretensions to taste and sensibility. Burkc's imagination is in truth only too prolific : a world...he dwells in the midst of chimerical alarms, is the dope of his own enchantments, and starts, like Prospero, at the spectres of his own- creation. His... | |
| sir James Prior - 1826 - 1108 sivua
...composition ; so select are its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours " dipt in heaven," that he who can read it without rapture...a world of itself, where he dwells in the midst of * Easy as the matter seems to this writer, no opponent has featured into this " field of reason," without... | |
| Robert Hall - 1827 - 276 sivua
...composition ; so select are its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours, " dipt in heaven," that he who can read it without rapture...chimerical alarms, is the dupe of his own enchantments, arid starts, like Prospero, at the spectres of his own creation. His intellectual views in general,... | |
| Robert Hall - 1827 - 268 sivua
...composition ; so seJect are its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours, " dipt in heaven," that he who can read it without rapture...imagination is in truth only too prolific : a world af itself, where he dwells in the midst of chimerical alarms, is the dupe of his own enchantments,... | |
| Robert Hall - 1827 - 276 sivua
...composition; so select are its images, so fraught with tenderness, and so rich with colours, " dipt in heaven," that he who can read it without rapture...His imagination is in truth only too prolific : a wor{d of itself, where he dwells in the midst of chimerical alarms, fs the dupe of his own enchantments,... | |
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