 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
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - 292 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. Sentiments or subjects otherwise great or pleasing and worthy... | |
 | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd - 1990 - 622 Seiten
...illustrations, 45 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... | |
 | Alan Carroll Purves - 1991 - 186 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. [Johnson, 1783/1964:2-3] Not very much was obscure to Dr. Johnson,... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 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. (Johnson, 1968, pp. 403-4) The position of'wit' in Metaphysical... | |
 | Richard Rambuss - 1998 - 212 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 2003 - 219 Seiten
...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... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - 2006 - 300 Seiten
...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" (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, ed. George Birkbeck Hill... | |
 | Robert Peter Kennedy, Kim Paffenroth, John Doody - 2006 - 430 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.12 It would simply confirm the judgement of Dryden or Johnson,... | |
 | David Mikics - 2008 - 364 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." teenth Century (1921). TS Eliot's essay "The Metaphysical Poets"... | |
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