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" But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus... "
Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their ... - Página 17
por Samuel Johnson - 1864
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 192

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1900 - 612 páginas
...discovery of likeness in unlikeness) ' they have more than enough. The most heterogeneous ideas arc yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked...and allusions; their learning instructs and their snbtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though ho sometimes...
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The English Poets: Chaucer to Donne

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...
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia: Maltebrun to Pearson

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,...
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Lives of the English Poets: Cowley-Dryden

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;...
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

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...
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Specimens of Modern English Literary Criticism

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...
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The French Renaissance in England: An Account of the Literary Relations of ...

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...
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Dr. Johnson

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...
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The English Parnassus: An Anthology Chiefly of Longer Poems

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...
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Life of Dryden

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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