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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.... "
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius - Página 10
por Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846
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The Annual Register, Volumen22

1796 - 690 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind, them ; and produced combinations of confuted magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loA : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe con. ceils, they likewife fometimfi ilruck...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volumen1

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 páginas
...no limits; they left not only rcafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck...
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Annual Register, Volumen22

Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confuted magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck...
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The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes (truck...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 páginas
...had no limits; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft; if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck...
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The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ...

1801 - 860 páginas
...they left not only reafon but fancy behind, and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, which not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft: if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they fometimes ftruck out unexpected...
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Lives of English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 páginas
...limits ; they left not only reafon but • fency behind them ; and produced combinations of confnfed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is Sever wholly loft; if they frequently threw away their wit upon falle conceits, they likewife fometimes...
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