 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 284 pages
...lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - Criticism - 1893 - 288 pages
...lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 484 pages
...upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were fir -fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least- necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 704 pages
...lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far...worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 670 pages
...lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far...worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1895 - 660 pages
...lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far...worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 366 pages
...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 pages
...; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. If their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far...worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
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Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage.... 
