 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
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 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... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 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 Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 508 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." "Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - 506 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." "Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 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. From this account of their compositions, it will be readily inferred,... | |
 | 1878 - 446 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 626 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... | |
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