 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1800 - 714 pages
...which he that never hand it wonders ho'w he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poet* Jrare seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are notobviods, but neither are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed therrij wonders... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 428 pages
...that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the "metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but...them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness they were ever found. " But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more vigorously... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1822 - 426 pages
...that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the "metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but...them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness they were ever found. " But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be raore vigorously... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but...them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness they were ever found. "But 'As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but...them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness they were ever found. "But As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 400 pages
...that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural; they 1 are not obvious, but neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them,... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - English literature - 1824 - 404 pages
...He proceeds secondly to those contracted Critics, whose whole concern turns upon Language NOTES. " But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more vigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but...what perverseness of industry they were ever found. parently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...which he that never . found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the „ metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are ,. often new,...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what I perverseness of industry they were ever found. x But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer,... | |
 | 1822 - 608 pages
...nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ;...what perverseness of industry they were ever found. Their courtship was void of fondness, and their lamentation of sorrow. Their wish was only to say what... | |
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Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. 
