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" 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 24
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Annual Register, Volume 22

1796 - 690 pages
...ranlacked for illuilrations, comparifons, and allufions ; their learning inftrufts, and their fubtilty furprifes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he ibmetimes admires is fcldom pleafcd. From thi« account of their competitions it will be readily inferred,...
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Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, to the Works of the English Poets, Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pages
...inftrudb, and their fubti^y furprifes; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearlybought, and though he fometimes admires is feldom pleafed. From this account of their eomppfitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the...
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Annual Register, Volume 22

Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 pages
...ranfacked for illuftrations, companions, and allufions ; their learning inrtru&s, and their fubtilcy furprifes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement...bought, and though he fometimes admires is feldom p leafed. From this account of their competitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not fuccefsful...
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The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, Volume 61

1780 - 596 pages
...learning inftrufts, and their fubtilty furprifcj; but the reader commonly thinks hi) improvement mcnt dearly bought, and though he fometimes admires is feldom pleafed. ' From this account of their competitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he fometimes admires, is feldom pleated. From this account of their compofitions it will be...moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprifing, they had no regard to that uniformity of fentiment which enables...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets;: Cowley. Denham. Milton. Butler ...

Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 494 pages
...ranfacked for illuftrations, comparifons, and allufions ; their learning inftru&s, and their fubtilty furprifes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement...bought, and, though he fometimes admires, is feldom plealed. From this account of their compofitions it will be readily inferred, that they were not ifuccefsful...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The lives of the most eminent English poets

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...nature and art are ranfacked for illultrations, comparifons, and allulions; their learnC 4 ing ing inftructs, and their fubtility furprifes; but the...moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprifmg, they had no regard to that uniformity of fentiment which enables...
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The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets,: With Critical ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1790 - 508 pages
...by violence together ; nature and art are ranfacked for illuftrations, comparifons, and allufions; their learning inftructs, and their fubtility furprifes;...moving the affections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprifing, they had no regard to that uniformity of fentiment which enables...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson.LL.D..: The lives of the English poets

Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...nature and art are ranfacked for illuftrations, comparifons, and allufions; their learning inftrufts, and their fubtility furprifes; but the reader commonly...were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the aflections. As they were wholly employed on fomcthing unexpected and furprifing, they had no regard...
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The Lives of the English Poets: and a Criticism of Their Work

Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...ranfacked for illuftrations, comparifons, and allufions ; their learning inftructs, and their fubtilty furprifes; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement...were not fuccefsful in reprefenting or moving the aft'ections. As they were wholly employed on fomething unexpected and furprizing, they had no regard...
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