 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,...  The lives of the most eminent English poets - Page 24by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1912 - 632 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.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - 1978 - 655 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Nicholas Tyacke - 1997 - 1456 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'. Yet this mode, too, was widely popular outside the universities... | |
 | 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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