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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 22
por Samuel Johnson - 1810
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The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship ...

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...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volumen4

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,...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volumen4

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,...
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English Literary Criticism

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,...
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Studies in English Literature: Being Typical Selections of British and ...

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...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

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...
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Lives of the English Poets, Volumen1

Samuel Johnson - 1906 - 502 páginas
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

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,...
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

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,...
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Six Essays on Johnson

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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