 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pàgines
...it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others PTC of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pàgines
...elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity; he perceived in it many excellencies, and did not discover that it wanted...power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. " The tediousness of this poem proceeds not from the uniformity of the subject, for it is sufficiently... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 520 pàgines
...elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity: he perceived in it many excellencies, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small arail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 598 pàgines
...splendour, and •"Betimes heightened it to sublimity: he perceived in it many excellences, and did »t discover, that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power ^engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Ttdiouoness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 378 pàgines
...it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which...power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences or errors are single and local, but tediousncss... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 504 pàgines
...it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which...power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences or errors are single and local, but tediousness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 422 pàgines
...it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity : he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which...power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences or errors are single and local, but tediousness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 416 pàgines
...elegance, often dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity: he perceived in it many excellencies, and did not discover that it wanted...power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligencies or errors are single and local, but tediousness... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 310 pàgines
...dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity: he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that, without...power of engaging- attention, and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences or errors are single and local, but tediousness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 434 pàgines
...dignified it with splendour, and sometimes heightened it to sublimity: he perceived in it many excellences, and did not discover that it wanted that without which...power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults; negligences or errors are single and local, but tediousness... | |
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many excellencies, and did not discover that it wanted that without which all others are of small avail, the power of engaging attention and alluring curiosity. Unhappily this pernicious failure is that which an author is least able to discover. We are... 
