 Their thoughts are often new but seldom natural; they are not obvious but neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.  The works of Samuel Johnson - Page 18by Samuel Johnson - 1824Full view - About this book
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 348 pages
...learning was their whole endeavour. . . . They neither copied nature nor life. . . . Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious,...what perverseness of industry they were ever found." The salient features of this curious group of writers are here clearly indicated. Their work is packed... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 pages
...what were the exact failures of the so-called Metaphysical Poets. ' Their thoughts,' he says, ' are often new but seldom natural, they are not obvious...are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering how he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found.'1... | |
 | 1920 - 482 pages
..." were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour." " Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious,...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perseverance of industry they were ever found." With the latter statement few will quarrel. But that... | |
 | 1920 - 492 pages
..." were men of learning, and to show their learning was their whole endeavour." " Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious,...that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perseverance of industry they were ever found." With the latter statement few will quarrel. But that... | |
 | 1925 - 600 pages
...wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural; they are not obvious,...rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of disoordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 pages
...imperfect, that they were only found to be versea by counting the syllables. . . . Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious,...what perverseness of industry they were ever found. . . . From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred that they were not successful... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 262 pages
...wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural; they are not obvious,...what perverseness of industry they were ever found. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life of Cowley. Antithesis has been a very popular device with selfconscious writers,... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 252 pages
...wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious,...reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders i more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were i ever found. j SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life of... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...generation of poets to the next. As a result, he rejected metaphysical wit because "their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural; they are not obvious,...and the reader, far from wondering that he missed theni, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found." And he objected... | |
 | Colin Rowe, Fred Koetter - 1984 - 198 pages
...cerebrality, as a convention and a breach of convention, necessarily operates unexpectedly. A rough method, 'a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult above Luigi Moretti : Rome, Casa del Girasole, detail above right Guiseppe Terragni: Rome, project... | |
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