...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...

...of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike." He adds, " Of wit, thus defined, they have more than enough....heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together." 12 As an indictment the force of this statement lies in the words yoked and violence; yoked denies...

...concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparent 'y unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they have more than...and allusions; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes...

...of cliscorclia concors; a combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit thus defined, they have more than enough.' The development from the linear to the painterly [styles involves] the development of line as the path...

...combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises. —Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets l. Where Do We Come From? Where Are...

...occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. Of wit, thus defined, they [the metaphysical poets] 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...

...combination of dissimilar images or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike" and that "the most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons and allusions", so the cAbbasid critic al-Amidl complains of Abu Tammam and his unfamiliar and far-fetched metaphors.42...

...lot more adjustment to Donne a century later when Samuel Johnson described the "metaphysical" style: The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art arc ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety...

...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...

...combination of dissimilar images, or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike. . . . The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence...ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions." In other words, they did not obey the classical prescriptions for mimesis or representation of reality,...