 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, L.L.D. - Página 26por Samuel Johnson - 1811Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1891 - 1590 páginas
...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...were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. Such is Johnson's ex-, planation of the phrase and its meaning, and it must be admitted that the name... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 páginas
...labor, 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. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 286 páginas
...labor, 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. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 páginas
...labour, directed l>y great abilities, is never wholly lost; if tb-y frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were fir -fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least- necessary... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 páginas
...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. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...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. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...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. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 páginas
...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes,... | |
 | 1896 - 840 páginas
...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...were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. Such is Johnson's explanation of the phrase and its meaning, and it must be admitted that the name... | |
 | William Swinton - 1897 - 682 páginas
...labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly 90 lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...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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