 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
 | 1925 - 610 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. . . . It hardly needs to be said that Johnson also felt that... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 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. Sentiments or subjects otherwise great or pleasing and worthy... | |
 | Alan Carroll Purves - 1991 - 186 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. [Johnson, 1783/1964:2-3] Not very much was obscure to Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 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. (Johnson, 1968, pp. 403-4) The position of'wit' in Metaphysical... | |
 | Richard Rambuss - 1998 - 212 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. . . . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never... | |
 | Nigel Griffin - 2001 - 262 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subdety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.' (1905: 11—12). See also the discussion of Gongora's ^Junto... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 pages
...drama of the senses and of the soul. Hence, "their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased" (para. 56). For Eliot, and many twentieth-century readers, this... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 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."8 Morgan, on the other hand, revels in admiration, in the wonderment... | |
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