 sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only imagination can travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiment and action to superior beings, to trace the counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven,  Early years and late reflections v. 2 - Página 66de Clement Carlyon - 1856Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | Charles H. Hinnant - 1994 - 276 páginas
...scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only the imagination can travel, and delighted to form new...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. (Lives, I: 177-78) Johnson can redefine genius as aspiration rather than fulfillment because he rejects... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds: he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of things visible... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - 274 páginas
...earlier in the Life Johnson had admired 'the sublimity of his mind' as evidenced by the fact that he sent 'faculties out upon discovery, into worlds where only...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven' (p. 178). It seems, then, that Johnson both admired the personifications of the forces of evil as instances... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 páginas
...admiring tendency was to associate this sublimity with an interiority of unquestioned authority: ‘He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...travel, and delighted to form new modes of existence', as Johnson put it (Lives, 1:178); and Blair makes the same point: ‘As soon as we open his Paradise... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 páginas
...was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a 150 scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not be always in other worlds: he must sometimes 155 revisit earth, and tell of things... | |
 | Angus Fletcher - 2007 - 204 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...counsels of hell, or accompany the choirs of heaven. But he could not always be in other worlds; he must sometimes revisit earth, and tell of things visible... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1833 - 574 páginas
...delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind. He sent his faculties out upon discovery, into worlds...delighted to form new modes of existence, and furnish sentiments and action to superior beings." The enthusiastic, and, in many respects, forced productions... | |
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