 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 951809Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1882 - 568 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...spectres and predictions, has little difficulty; for lie that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1885 - 568 pages
...credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. Incredullty odl. " 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1890 - 480 pages
...Progress of Poesy, vol. ip 29. 2 Works, vol. ip 41. > Horace, Odes, i. 15. • Horace, Ars Poet. 188./ by fabulous appendages of spectres and predictions,...only as we believe ; we are improved only as we find somethingTo^bT'S^feted or declined. I do not see that " The Bard " promotes any truth, moral or political.... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - English literature - 1891 - 568 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...difficulty ; for he that forsakes the probable may always mid the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we believe ; we are improved only... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - English fiction - 1894 - 346 pages
...select VIII.] " Castle of Otranto." 221 a singular event," he says, speaking of Gray's poem, The Bard, "and swell it to a giant's bulk by fabulous appendages...something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that ' The Bard ' promotes any truth, moral or political." " We are affected only as we believe" The... | |
 | Thomas Gray - English poetry - 1895 - 190 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hepburn Millar - English poetry - 1896 - 316 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...may always find the marvellous. And it has little use—we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - Drama - 1899 - 304 pages
...there are passages in the " Milton " which Flaubert would call " gigantesque " in their ineptitude. " 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." Such is Johnson's singular criticism of Gray's... | |
 | Arthur Bingham Walkley - Drama - 1899 - 304 pages
...there are passages in the " Milton " which Flaubert would call " gigantesque " in their ineptitude. " To select a singular event and swell it to a giant's...only as we find something to be imitated or declined. l do not see that ' The Bard' promotes any _ truth, moraTof political." Such is Johnson's singular... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...credible ; but its revival disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood. ' Incredulus odi8.' 41 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 9. 42 H is stanzas are too long, especially his... | |
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