 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 páginas
...limits ; they left not only reason, but fancy, behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. 76. exility, thinness, fineness. 82. concclts, fancies. 86. hyperhole. See Def. 84. 87. faney, imagination.... | |
 | 1891 - 1590 páginas
...had no limits, they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited but could not be imagined. Yet, if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 páginas
...had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; imd produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed l>y great abilities, is never wholly lost; if tb-y frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits,... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 páginas
...no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 páginas
...no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined." Yet a happy trifle was now and then hit upon. At rare intervals nature seems to have broken through the... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...no limits - they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 366 páginas
...had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | 1896 - 840 páginas
...hod no limits, they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited but could not be imagined. Yet, if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected... | |
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What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,... 
