| Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 512 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1862 - 452 Seiten
...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...he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are aflected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 590 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1873 - 622 Seiten
...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 believe; we are improved only as we find something to be imitated or declined. I do not see that the Hard promotes any truth, moral or... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1876 - 564 Seiten
...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...he that forsakes 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... | |
| Thomas Gray - 1876 - 162 Seiten
...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...he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we believe; we are improved only as we... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1879 - 184 Seiten
...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... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1882 - 568 Seiten
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1890 - 480 Seiten
...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,...he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous. And it has little use ; we are affected only as we believe ; we are improved only as we... | |
| Thomas Arnold - 1891 - 568 Seiten
...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... | |
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