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 - 95 ページ 編集 - 1809全文表示 - この書籍について
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 ページ
...pleasing." Johnson's opinion of "The Bard" again springs from his basic position on truth and pleasure: "To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...as we find something to be imitated or declined." But Johnson makes handsome amends to Gray in his concluding paragraph, on the "Elegy." As always, Johnson... | |
| Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 ページ
..."disgusts us with apparent and unconquerable falsehood" and then generalizes in the following terms: "To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous."10 The term repeated in all three of the above citations is "probability." Johnson was... | |
| Wolfram Hogrebe - 2005 - 306 ページ
...Grays Gedicht, „it has little use: we are affected only äs we believe; we are improved only äs we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that The Bard promotes any truth, moral or pohtical", demonstiert deutlich die vorherrschende klassizistische... | |
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