 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 506 pagina’s
...but fancy behind them; .andjn-pdnced combinations of confused magnificence, that noLonJjLcouldjiot. be credited, but could. not be imagined. Yet great...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they, likewise, sometimes struck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced comhinations of confustd magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great ahilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 722 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations, of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw »way their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes strack... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations, of confused magnificence, that ill of Young's morality in the early part of his life,...wrong ; but Tindal could not err in his opinion of lost ; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes strack... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1840 - 522 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if {hey frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour directed by great abilities is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labor, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost : if they frequently threw away their wit... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost; if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pagina’s
...left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
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What they wanted however of the sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits; they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited,... 
