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" To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we... "
The Monthly anthology, and Boston review - Page 95
1809
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The Poetical Works of Collins, Gray, and Beattie: With a Memoir of Each

William Collins, Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1852 - 332 pages
...Romans credible; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...only as we find something to be imitated or declined. 1 do not see that '-The Bard* promotes any truth, moral or political. His stanzas are too long, especially...
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Johnson's Lives of the British poets completed by W. Hazlitt, Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 344 pages
...Romans credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or political. His stanzas are too long, especially his epodes...
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Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1854 - 512 pages
...Bomans credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulons appendages of spectres and predictions, has little difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 pages
...credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. " To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are aflected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined....
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 626 pages
...Eomans credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that the Hard promotes any truth, moral or political. His stanzas are too long, especially his epodes...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1873 - 590 pages
...Romans credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Increduhis odi. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...little difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable mny always find the marvellous. And it has little use; wo aro affected only as we believe; we are improved...
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Select Poems of Thomas Gray

Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1876 - 162 pages
...credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. " To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that ' The Bard ' promotes any truth, moral or political. " His stanzas are too long, especially his...
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A Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical: With an Appendix on ...

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1876 - 564 pages
...credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odl. " To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...the probable may always find the marvellous. And it lias little use ; we are affected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we find something to...
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A manual of English literature

Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1877 - 656 pages
...Romans credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulns odi. To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...; we are improved only as we find something to be imita'ed or declined. I do not see that the Bard promotes any truth, moral, or political. His stanzas...
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Traveller ...: With Introduction, Life of the Author, Argument, & Notes

Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 pages
...credible; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredulus odi. 34 To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's bulk 33 Count Algarotti (1712-1764), a Venetian by birth, a distinguished littérateur, art-critic, and...
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