 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 350 pages
...with bold inversions, and sonorous periods; but we may apply to him what Pope has said of Homer: " It is the sentiment that swells and fills out " the...diction, which rises with it, and forms "itself about it ; like glass in the furnace, " which grows to a greater magnitude, as the " breath within is more powerful,... | |
 | John Bell - 1807 - 472 pages
...a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like ; yet his expression is never too hig for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it....diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it: for in the same degree that a thought is warmer, an expression will he brighter; as that is more strong,... | |
 | Homerus - 1808 - 574 pages
...to drink the hlood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too hig for the sense, hut justly great in proportion to it. It is the sentiment that swells and fills out the die* t'ioi-, which rises with it, and forms itself ahout it : for in the same degree that a thonght... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1809 - 372 pages
...with hold inversions, and sonorous periods ; but we may apply to him what Pope has §aid of Homer ; " It is the sentiment that swells and fills out the...diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it; like glass in the furnace, which grows to a greater magnitude, as the breath within is more powerful,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 760 pages
...impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like ; yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly...diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it : for in the same degree that a thought is warmer, an expression will be brighter; as that is more... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 790 pages
...impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thirsts t6 drink the blood .of an enemy, and the like ; yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but •justly...proportion to it It is the sentiment that swells and fills ont the diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it: for in the same degree that a thought... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 770 pages
...to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too big tor the sense, bat justly great in proportion to it. It is the sentiment that swells and fills out the diction, which met with it, and forais itself about it : for in the sume degree that a thought is warmer, an expression... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 322 pages
...impatient to be on the wing, a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it. 'Tis the sentiment that swells and fills out the diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about... | |
 | 1813 - 352 pages
...weapon ' thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like ; yet his expression is never too hig for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it....diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it ; and in the same degree that a thought is warmer, an expression will be brighter ; as that is more... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 pages
...impatient to be on the wing, and a weapon thirsts to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like. Yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly...diction, which rises with it, and forms itself about it: for in the same degree that a thought is warmer, an expression will be brighter ; as that is more strong,... | |
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impatient' to be on the wing, a weapon 'thirsts' to drink the blood of an enemy, and the like; yet his expression is never too big for the sense, but justly great in proportion to it. 
