 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. - 26. oldalszerző: Samuel Johnson - 1811Teljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1796 - 690 oldal
...loA : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe con. ceils, they likewife fometimfi ilruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at lead neceflary to letd and think. No man could be born a mctaphyfical poet, DO: aflame the dignity... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 oldal
...loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes (truck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at lead necelTary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor afTume the'dignity... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - 590 oldal
...loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife foroetimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at lead neccliary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphylical poet, nor allume the'dignity... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 oldal
...conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far- fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at leaft neceifary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor aflume affume the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 oldal
...loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were farfetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at leaft neceffary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor affume the dignity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 oldal
...loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes (truck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at leaft neceflary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor afiume the dignity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 oldal
...loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at leaft neceflary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor aflume the dignity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 oldal
...wholly loft; if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched,...worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at laft neceflary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor afiume the dignity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 oldal
...conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at leaft neceflary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphyfical poet, nor aflume the dignity... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 oldal
...were far-fetched, they we o;ten worth the carnage. To write on their plan, it Was at least necessary read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume t dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, bv iinitatio liorrowrd from imitations,... | |
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