 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if {hey frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | Great Britain - 590 pages
...threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truths — 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." In the same school with these " Metaphysical Poets ;" and like... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected tmth : 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... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - Blacks - 1848 - 796 pages
...that, ' if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise struck out some unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage :' and that, ' to write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think 10.' These remarks... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. 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... | |
 | William Russell - English language - 1856 - 240 pages
...lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were farfetched,...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... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. 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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1877 - 498 pages
...never wholly lost, if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were farfetched, they were often worth the currying." site perception of points of analogy and points of contrast too subtle for common observation.... | |
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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.... 
