 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 - Seite 24von Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 Seiten
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learn- 50 ing instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. 9. From this account of their compositions, it will be readily... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 628 Seiten
...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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