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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, L.L.D. - Página 26
por Samuel Johnson - 1811
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Fame's Twilight: Studies of Nine Men of Letters

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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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 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,...
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The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism

Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 206 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 descrip1 Arnold, it must be admitted, gives us often the impression of seeing the masters, whom...
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The Twentieth Century, Volumen7

1880 - 1128 páginas
...Great labour, directed by great ability, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises ; if the imagination is not...
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A Critical History of English Literature: The Restoration to 1800, Volumen3

David Daiches - 1979 - 336 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,...
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A Critical History of English Literature: from the beginnings to ..., Volumen1

David Daiches - 1979 - 268 páginas
...sonneteers it can be said, as Johnson said of the "metaphysical" poets of the seventeenth century, that "to write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think." Indeed, the "conceit" of the Petrarchan sonneteer is not basically different from that of the metaphysical...
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Valuation in Criticism and Other Essays

F. R. Leavis - 1986 - 380 páginas
...erudite obscurity, metaphorical extravagance and cerebral corrugation. But, as Doctor Johnson conceded, 'to write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think' (the italics are mine). In the tradition established by Donne it was assumed that a poet should be...
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A Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms

Roger Fowler - 1987 - 276 páginas
...textual work. Not the least of its values lies in the learning and wit of its principal practitioners. 'To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.' Sce also D1SCOURSE, PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHOANALYS1S. For a concise account sce DC Wood, 'An 1ntroduction...
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The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746-1773

Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 páginas
...was nonetheless interesting to.Johnson for other reasons: "if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...plan it was at least necessary to read and think." The ingenuity which might distract from an affecting poetical experience could nevertheless provide...
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Blessed Excess: Religion and the Hyperbolic Imagination

Stephen H. Webb - 1993 - 226 páginas
...confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined" (21). Nevertheless, "they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth:...were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage" (21). In an essay on Butler he displays the root of his prejudice against excess: "All disproportion...
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