 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. - Pągina 26per Samuel Johnson - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 pągines
...unexpected truth: if thlitr" conceits were far.fetched, they were often wurttrftie carriage. To write 011 their plan it was at least necessary to read and think....assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, byjimitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes,... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pągines
...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost; if they frequently threw away their wit like one from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes,... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pągines
...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriaga To write on thenplan, it was at least necessary to read and think. No man could be born a... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 pągines
...abilities, is never wholly lost, if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were farfetched, they were often worth the currying." site perception of points of analogy and points of contrast too subtle for common observation.... | |
 | 1878 - 446 pągines
...broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent, by their slender conceits and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature, or the scenes...assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery, and hereditary similes,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pągines
...labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly 90 lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume 95 the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations,... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pągines
...great labor, 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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 pągines
...great labor, 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... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 pągines
...labor, directed by great ability, is never wholly lost; if they frequently threw away their wit'upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out...were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises; if the imagination is not... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - 690 pągines
...labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly 90 lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck...man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume v. the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, •by imitations borrowed from... | |
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