| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred,... | |
| Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
| Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased." Dryden's treatment in this poem of the disease which had carried... | |
| 1899 - 816 páginas
...for illustrations, comparisons and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtilty surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased." (" Cowley," in Lives of the Poets.) The founder of this school... | |
| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 páginas
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
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