 | British poets - 1822 - 306 pages
...had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great ahilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pages
...but fancy behind them; .andjn-pdnced combinations of confused magnificence, that noLonJjLcouldjiot. be credited, but could. not be imagined. 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced comhinations of confustd magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great ahilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations, of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw »way their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes strack... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations, of confused r." They who think ill of Young's morality in the...wrong ; but Tindal could not err in his opinion of lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes strack... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if {hey frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 pages
...that, ' if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise struck out some unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage :' and that, ' to write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think 10.' These remarks... | |
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What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,... 
