 | 1899 - 816 pages
...for illustrations, comparisons and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtilty surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased." (" Cowley," in Lives of the Poets.) The founder of this school... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | John Dennis - 1910 - 126 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased. Language, according to Johnson, is the dress of thought, a definition... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 pages
...for illustrations, comparisons and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises, but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' Pondering with some interest and curiosity such divergences of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instrucis and their subtlety surprizes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased Milton tried the metaphysical style only in his lines on Hobson... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased. " From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred,... | |
 | 1925 - 610 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. . . . It hardly needs to be said that Johnson also felt that... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. . . . Sublimity is produced by aggregation, and littleness by... | |
 | Thomas Krusche - 1987 - 384 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased": "Life Of Cowley", Johnson, Prose and Poetry, ed. Mona Wilson... | |
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought,... 
