 The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with the whole circle of polished life ; what is less than this can be only pretty, the plaything of fashion, and the amusement of a day. THERE...  The British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 218by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
 | William Bayne - Authors, English - 1898 - 168 pages
...the praise of genius, they do not claim. The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with...less than this can be only pretty, the plaything of a fashion, and the amusement of a day.' But The Castle of Indolence baffles the dire condemnation of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1905 - 582 pages
...the praise of genius, they cannot claim. The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with...THERE is in The Adventurer* a paper of verses given to 15 one of the authors as Mr. West's, and supposed to have been written by him 3. It should not be concealed,... | |
 | Absolute criticism - 1912 - 396 pages
...the praise of genius, they cannot claim. The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with...the plaything of fashion and the amusement of a day. ' ' It is absurd, of course to quote this admirable criticism as evidence that Johnson thought meanly... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...of which the effect Rational is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with the poUshed"\ife. whole circle of polished life ; what is less than...plaything of fashion, and the amusement of a day. S. JOHNSON, Lives of the Poets (West), 1779-1781. Let no pious ear be offended if I advance, in opposition... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1916 - 422 pages
...the praise of genius, they cannot claim. The noblest beauties of art are those of which the effect is coextended with rational nature, or at least with...circle of polished life ; what is less than this can only be pretty — the plaything of fashion and the amusement of a day. There is an apparent moderation... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...Wirklichkeit überwunden werden. The noblest beauties of art, sagt er,101) are those of which the effect is co-extended with rational nature, or at least with the whole circle of polished life. Und diese Natürlichkeit, the best effect of art, is a just representation of things really existing... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - English literature - 1904 - 160 pages
...of art are those of which the effect is coextended with rational nature, or at least with the whole of polished life; what is less than this can be only...pretty, the plaything of fashion and the amusement of a day."1 By this test of nature Johnson censured Gay's combinations of Grecian deities and Gothic fairies,... | |
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