 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 páginas
...are capable to receive, and such pleasures only imparted, as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be...magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less. NUMB. 138. SATURDAY, July 13, 1751. 0 tanlum libeat mecum tilri sordida rura Atque hnmiles habitare... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 462 páginas
...are capable to receive, and such pleasures only imparted, as others are qualified to enjoy. . By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be...his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles kss. NUMB. 138. SATURDAY, July 13, 1751. 0 tantum libeat mecum tibi sordida rura Atque humiles habitare... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 páginas
...capable of receiving, and such pleasures only imparted, as 'others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be...declination ; he remits his splendour, but retains bis magnitude ; and pleases more, though he dazzles less. RAMBLER. CHAP. VII. ON THE ADVANTAGES OF... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 páginas
...arc capable to receive, and such pleasures only imparted, as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be...the sun in his evening declination, he remits his splendor, but retains his magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less. No. 138. SATURDAY, JULY... | |
 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 páginas
...senBible of the poet; has justly observed) fairly worth the seven. — Melmoth. 2. An elevated geniu?, employed in little things, appears (to use the simile...magnitude ; and pleases more, though he dazzles less — Johnson. 3. The horror with which we entertain the thoughts of death (or indeed of any future evil)... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1824 - 308 páginas
...An elevated genius, employed in little thing*, appears, [to use lhe simile of Longious] like the suo in his evening declination : he remits his splendour,...magnitude and pleases more, though he dazzles less. If envious people were to ask themselves, whether they would change their entire situations with the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 páginas
...are capable to receive, and such pleasures only imparted, as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be...magnitude, and pleases more though he dazzles less. N° 138. SATURDAY, July 13, 1751. 0 l.inlfim libeat mecum tibi sordida mm Atque humiles habitan casas,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 482 páginas
...are capable to receive, and such pleasures only imparted, as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour -will...appears, to use the simile of Longinus, like the sun »K in his evening declination ; he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude, and pleases more... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1825 - 316 páginas
...ancestry render a good man more illustrious ;' but an ill one, more contemptible. i ' Vice ii infaAn elevated genius- employed in little things, appears...his magnitude ; and pleases more, though he dazzles IQES. pious,' though in a prince; and virtue honourable, though in a peasant. IT envious? people were... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 páginas
...are capable to receive, and such pleasures only imparted, as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be...employed in little things, appears, to use the simile of Longiuus, like the sun hi his evening declination : he remits his splendour but retains his magnitude,... | |
| |
... and such pleasures only imparted as others are qualified to enjoy. By this descent from the pinnacles of art no honour will be lost; for the condescensions of learning are always overpaid by gratitude. An elevated genius employed in little things... 
