 Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.  The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ... - Page xii1801Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be j ust ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 428 pages
...thought to happiness of language. " If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit 'which is at once natural and new ; that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - 426 pages
...thought to happiness of language. " If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 404 pages
...thought to happiness of language. " If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 398 pages
...thought to happiness of language. " If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If, by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is, at once, natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it wonders how... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...thought ty happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that , be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that . which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never . found it wonders how... | |
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