 | Edith Birkhead - 1921 - 262 Seiten
...Johnson expresses the attitude of his age when, in referring to Gray's poem, The Bard, he remarks : "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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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 Bard promotes any truth, moral or... | |
 | Thomas Gray, Samuel Johnson, Oliver Goldsmith - 1926 - 206 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... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - 1917 - 488 Seiten
...rather than perception."3 His views on the matter of poetry are shown in his criticism of Gray's Bard: "To select a singular event, and swell it to a giant's...he that forsakes the probable may always find the marvellous." The common growth of mother earth sufficed for him as for Wordsworth. The distinction... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...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...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... | |
 | Kristina Straub - 1987 - 260 Seiten
..."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... | |
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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 believe;... 
