 But at the fame time , no ftrong imagination dwells long upon any one particular; or heaps together a mafs of trivial ones. By the happy choice of fome one, or of a few that are the moft ftriking , it...  The poems of Ossian - Page 227by James Macpherson - 1801Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1763 - 784 pages
...it prefents the image the more complete, (hews us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination îs able to do, by turning its object round and round into a variety of lights." It is clear, then, that if there be not a fimilarity of geniu', between the poet and the reader, the... | |
 | Hugh Blair - Literary forgeries and mystifications - 1763 - 94 pages
...compleat, mows us more at one glance, thnn a feeble imagination is able to do, by turning its objedt round and, round into a variety of lights. Tacitus is of all profe writers the moil concife. He has even a degree of abruptnefs refembling our author: Yet no writer is more eminent... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1763 - 618 pages
...of fome one, or of a few that are the moft ftriking, it prefents the image the more compleat, fhews us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is able to do, L 3 ty by turning its objeft round and round into a variety of lights." It is clear then, that if there... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1763 - 604 pages
...of fome one, or of a few that are the moft ftriking, it prefents the image the more compleat, fhcws us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is able to do, LI by I5P £ Critical DiffertaticH, &fr. by turning its object round and round into a variety of lights."... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1763 - 630 pages
...of fome one, or of a few that ,are the moft miking, it prefents the image the more compleat, (hews .us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is able to d^ by turning its objc£l round and round into a variety of lights." It is clear then, that if there... | |
 | 1765 - 520 pages
...choice of fome one, or of a few that are the moft ftriking, it prefenns the image more compleat, {hows us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is able to do, by turning its objecl: round and round into a variety of lights. Tacitus "is of all profe writers the moft concife.... | |
 | Scottish Gaelic poetry - 1783 - 282 pages
...ftriking , it prefents the image more compleat, shows us more at one glance, than a feeble imaginarion is able to do, by turning its object round and round...writers the moft concife. He has even a degree of abruptenefs refembling our author: Yet no writer is more eminent for lively defcription. When Fingal... | |
 | Ossian - 1801 - 364 pages
...choice of fome one, or of- a few that are the moft firikmg, it prcfents the image more complete, fhews us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is able to do , by turning iis object round and round into a variety of lights. Tacitus is of all profe •writers the molt concife.... | |
 | Ossian - 1805 - 262 pages
...choice of some one, or of a few that are the most striking, it presents the image more complete, shows us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is able to do, bv turning its object round and round into a variety of lights. Tacitus is of all prose writers the... | |
 | Ossian - 1806 - 366 pages
...choice of some one, or of a few that are the most striking, it presents the image more complete, shows us more at one glance, than a feeble imagination is...round into a variety of lights. Tacitus is of all prose writers the most concise. He has even a degree of abruptness resembling our author • Yet no... | |
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