 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1899 - 822 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 a happy trifle was now and then hit upon. At rare intervals nature seems to have broken through the... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - 420 pages
...had no limits ; he left not only reason but fancy behind him ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined." It is the same admirable critic who observes that, if Donne was " upon common subjects unnecessarily... | |
 | 1901 - 948 pages
...no limits, tliey left not only reason but fanoy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited but could not be imagined. Yet, if they frequently t lire w away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 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... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - 124 pages
...Cowley nennt,197) 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.198) Andererseits paßt ihm eine allzu einfache Sprache auch nicht. Darüber spricht er sich... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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 Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 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... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - 236 pages
...hyperbole ; . . . 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." The " Spasmodics," like the writers of " Heroic " plays in Dryden's time, generated from the corruption... | |
 | 1880 - 1128 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... | |
 | Julia Ashtiany - 1990 - 552 pages
...Metaphysicals, these poets "left not only reason but fancy behind them" and "produced combinations . . . that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined". Ibn al-Muctazz's energies were directed towards the discovery of new and startling comparisons: the... | |
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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,... 
