 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 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,... | |
 | Stephen P. Whitaker - 1912 - 120 páginas
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 | Saint Sidonius Apollinaris - 1915 - 280 páginas
...seventeenth century,3 but equally applicable to our author of the fifth. For his style too is marred ' by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes'. The thing could not be better said. The result of all these artifices, applied with an unshrinking... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 páginas
...But to play with thoughts it is necessary to think. ' To write on their plan ', says Dr. Johnson, ' it was at least necessary to read and think. No man...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.' Consider a poem, The Repulse, by a comparatively... | |
 | Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1921 - 316 páginas
...think. ' To write on their plan ', says Dr. Johnson, ' it was at least necessary to read and think, ^fo man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume...imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables^ Consider a poem, The Repulse, by a comparatively... | |
 | Richard Lovelace - 1921 - 198 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...plan it was at least necessary to read and think." It was a happy inspiration that led the "onlie begetters" of these two volumes to issue for the delectation... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 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...and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, i. Boston, Atheiueum Press, 1899; pp. xxiv, xxv. 242 DOCTOR JOHNSON nor assume the dignity of a writer... | |
 | Kenneth Newton Colvile - 1923 - 296 páginas
...world to grasp a little more of its own meaning. At its worst, as Johnson wrote, ' to write on 12* their plan it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from... | |
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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.... 
