 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great ahilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away...unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1824 - 450 pages
...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan...necessary to read and think. No man could be born In perusing the works of this race of authors, the mind is exercised either by recollection or inquiry;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities,...unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was *• at least necessary to read and... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities,...unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pages
...only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great ahilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away...unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pages
...conceits, they likewise sometimes strack out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan...think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor aseume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...produced combinations, of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not is life, may perhaps be wrong ; but Tindal could not...religion. Tindal used to spend much of his time a strack out unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 pages
...produced combinations, of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities,...unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | 590 pages
...poets." Of these poets, however, after some severe strictures, that critic justly observes : — " Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truths — if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 pages
...produced combinations, of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities,...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected tmth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan... | |
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Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage.... 
