| Thomas Humphry Ward - 1901 - 630 páginas
...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined they [Donne and his followers] have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes... | |
| 1901 - 948 páginas
...endeavour ; they neither copied nature nor life, hence their thoughts are often new but seldom natural ; the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together, nature and art being ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; they failed, as might have been expected,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1905 - 530 páginas
...as a kind of concors ' ; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they...more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas are Vjoked. by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions;... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes... | |
| William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 páginas
...dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus denned, they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes... | |
| Sir Sidney Lee - 1910 - 522 páginas
...of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike ', is anticipated by Du Bartas. In both poets ' the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions; their learning instructs and their subtility surprises '.* Donne long survived the Elizabethan era, and he helped to extend Du Bartas's... | |
| John Dennis - 1910 - 126 páginas
...grotesque, and the one evil to be shunned was simplicity. Of this "race of authors," Johnson writes: The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes... | |
| William Macneile Dixon, Sir Herbert John Clifford Grierson - 1911 - 792 páginas
...against Swinburne's, the dictum upon Donne and his school of a critic, Dr. Johnson, not less eminent : ' 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, and though he sometimes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 páginas
...how he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instrucis and their subtlety surprizes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought,... | |
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