 The works and operations of nature are too great in their extent, or too much diffused in their relations, and the performances of art too inconstant and uncertain, to be reduced to any determinate idea.  The Rambler - Page 285by Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 463 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Alvin B. Kernan - Biography & Autobiography - 1989 - 384 pages
...possibility," while art is an incomplete and changing way of describing what is never fixed or still: "The works and operations of nature are too great in their extent, or too much diffused in their relations, and the performances of art too inconstant and uncertain, to be reduced... | |
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