 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil,...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... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 σελίδες
...occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human natuje^-as Beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - 258 σελίδες
...of poets called by Dr. Johnson metaphysical poets, who " wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as beings looking upon good and evil, impassive and at leisure; . . . making remarks on the actions of men, and the vicissitudes of life, without interest and without... | |
 | 1903 - 788 σελίδες
...group whose feats in diction remind one of what Dr. Johnson said about the metaphysical poets, that "their wish was only to say what they hoped had never been said before." 8 Gosson, in a well-known passage, puts brave language first among dramatic attractions : " sweetness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 σελίδες
...what on any occasion they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before *. 58 Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetick ; for they... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil,...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done, but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic ; for they never... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature ; as Beings looking upon good and evil,...sorrow. Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before. and the second rational admiration. Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 σελίδες
...what, on any occasion, they should have said or done; but wrote rather as beholders than partakers of human nature; as Beings looking upon good and evil,...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... | |
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... they had no regard to that uniformity of sentiment which enables us to conceive and to excite the pains and the pleasure of other minds ; they never inquired what, on any occasion, they should have said or done ; but wrote rather as beholders than... 
