 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 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 - 1854 - 346 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 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, but could not be imagined. Yet great labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused h at noontide would he stretch, And pore upon the...wood, now smiling as in scorn, Mutt'ring his wayward f lost; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 498 pages
...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 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 wil upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...limits ; they left not only reason, but fancy, behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. 76. exility, thinness, fineness. j 86. hyperhole. See Def. 84. 82. coneeits, fancies. j 87. I'aucj,... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 pages
...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. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises; if the imagination is not... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 490 pages
...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. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises; if the imagination is not... | |
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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,... 
