 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...reasons: "if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think." The ingenuity which might distract from an affecting poetical experience... | |
 | Stephen H. Webb - Religion - 1993 - 226 pages
...could not be credited, but could not be imagined" (21). Nevertheless, "they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage" (21). In an essay on Butler he displays the root of his prejudice against excess: "All disproportion... | |
 | Tim Fulford - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 274 pages
...surpassed in both cases, although he added of the metaphysicals that 'they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were farfetched, they were often worth the carriage' (Lives, vol. i, pp. 20-1). Even as he advocated a writing whose authority was of a communal, apparently... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...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,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could he horn a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity... | |
 | Philip Smallwood - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 234 pages
...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." 50 Dual-valuation criteria of this kind enable critics to articulate their mixed feelings—the coexistence... | |
 | Fabio L. Vericat, Fabio L. Vericat Pérez-Mínguez - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 294 pages
...wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were farfetched they were often worth the carriage."58 Eliot exploits this negative praise as a vehicle to translate the poetic qualities of... | |
 | Great Britain - 1880 - 1132 pages
...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. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises; if the imagination is not... | |
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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.... 
