| Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 482 páginas
...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were fir -fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their...borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, *nd hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of this race of authors,... | |
| Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of this race of authors,... | |
| Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 páginas
...wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of this race of authors,... | |
| William Swinton - 1897 - 682 páginas
...wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To...it was at least necessary to read and think. No man couid be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume « the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...con- '•'"". ceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected tru1sn^;> if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to 1 read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 502 páginas
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| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of this race of authors,... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of this race of authors,... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 páginas
...how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. If their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To...plan it was at least necessary to read and think. Men have been wise in very different modes ; but they have always laughed the same way. The artifice... | |
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