 | 1833 - 984 halaman
...past and future into the present. " Whatever," says Dr. Johnson, " withdraws us from the power of our senses — whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." This fine sentiment, though in words it may seem to contradict my statement, is yet in sense the same.... | |
 | James Montgomery - 1833 - 348 halaman
...quoted from Dr. Johnson, we are taught, that " whatever withdraws us from the power of our 1 senses, and makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings." Now this is the very essence, and to produce it is the end of poetry; in illustration of which the... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - 1833 - 530 halaman
...that, " whatever withdraws us " from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the dis" tant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in " the dignity of thinking beings." No writer has possessed greater power to do this than Scott. He has not interested his readers by addressing... | |
 | Sharon Turner - 1834 - 608 halaman
...them. Dr. Johnson's grand idea is universally true : ' whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.' M Most men of genius and celebrity have been fond of romances in their youth, and the taste has continued... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1844 - 572 halaman
...Charles Forster, BD 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1843. TF there be truth in that celebrated saying, that ' whatever makes -*- the past, the distant, or the future...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings,' then surely the generation in which we live may lay no small claim to intellectual advancement. The... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 696 halaman
...endeavoured ; and would be foolish, if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advance* us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and from my friends, be such frigid philosophy... | |
 | William C. Dowling - 2008 - 226 halaman
...benefits of knowledge, and the blessings of religion' ": " 'whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' " (V.334). The theme is ultimately one of spiritual release, and develops from an adjustment of the... | |
 | Edwin M. Eigner, George J. Worth - 1985 - 268 halaman
...Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775), reads: 'Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings' ('Inch Kenneth'). The concept of 'the distant', so important to Alison, does appear in Johnson's original.... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - 1925 - 452 halaman
...endeavoured; and would be foolish if it were possible. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me, and far from my friends be such frigid philosophy as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground... | |
 | Herbert Grabes - 1994 - 454 halaman
...introd. Lewis Leary (New York: Capricorn, 1961)209,118. Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the...the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.43 Johnson pleads for a "predominating]" cognitio intellectiva which "advances us in the dignity... | |
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Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses, whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future, predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. 
