 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1781 - 498 pages
...themfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood fimply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically...material images, into that language they cannot be tranflated. But fo much meaning is com-' prifed in fo few words ; the particulars of refemblance are... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - English poetry - 1785 - 544 pages
...perfect, for moft of ' the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to ' be underftood fimply on one fide the * comparifon, and metaphorically on the ' other...material images, into ' that language they cannot be tranf* lated. But as fo much meaning is * comprifed in fo few words .t the par' ticulars of refemblance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...themfelves not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be undcrftood fimply on one -fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language * By Garth, In his " Tocm on Clareniont," and by Pope, in his " Windfer Foreft." which does not exprefs... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 498 pages
...themfelves not perfeft ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood limply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language * By Garth, in his " Poem OQ Claremont," and by pope, in hit ** Wipdfor f OK V1 which which does not... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Poets, English - 1790 - 508 pages
...in themfelves not perfect; for molt of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood (imply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically...by material images, into that language they cannot b& tranflated. But fo much meaning is comprized in few words ; the particulars of refemblance are fo... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...themfelves not perfect; for moft t>f the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood fimply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically...and if there be any language which does not exprefs intellecr.ua! operations by material images, into that language they cannot be tranflated. But fo much... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1795 - 610 pages
...themfelves not pcrfecT: : for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are Dd 2 to to be underftood fimply on one fide of the comparifon, and metaphorically...material images, into that language they cannot be tranllated. But fo much meaning is comprifed in fo few words ; the particulars of refemblance are fo... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1800 - 440 pages
...most of .the words, thus artfully opposed, are to be underctood simply on one side of the comparison, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot be translated) but... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...thus artful! opposed, are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison, and met* phorically on the other : and if there be any language which does not exprc intellectual operations by material images, into that language they cannot b translated. But... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...not perfect ; for moft of the words, thus artfully oppofed, are to be underftood fimply on one lide of the comparifon, and metaphorically on the other;...material images, into that language they cannot be tranflated. But fo much meaning is comprized in fo few words ; the particulars of refemblance are fo... | |
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The lines are in themselves not perfect, for most of the words thus artfully opposed are to be understood simply on one side of the comparison, and metaphorically on the other ; and if there be any language which does not express intellectual operations... 
