 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 pages
...and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities,...unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English literature - 1911 - 664 pages
...and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed by great abilities,...struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to... | |
 | Richard Lovelace - Phelps, William Lyon, 1865 - 1921 - 198 pages
...unsympathetically concerning this School in his famous Life of Cowley, said with his accustomed penetration, " Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is...unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think."... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...produced combinations of confused magnificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. " Yet great labour, directed by great...unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | Thomas Stearns Eliot - Criticism - 1928 - 206 pages
...acknowledged even by those who feel a strong partiality toward the school of poets criticized : — " Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is...unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1880 - 1128 pages
...deny that there was something to be said in their favour. Great labour, directed by great ability, is never wholly lost ; if they frequently threw away...unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...than he who dissects a sun-beam with a prism, can exhibit the wide effulgence of a summer noon. . . . Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is...unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | Allen Reddick - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 292 pages
...admiration of their readers, but their poetry was nonetheless interesting to.Johnson for other reasons: "if they frequently threw away their wit upon false...unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan it was at least necessary to read and think."... | |
 | T. S. Eliot - Literary Collections - 1997 - 146 pages
...partiality toward the school of poets criticized: — Yet great lahour, directed hy great ahilities, is never wholly lost; if they frequently threw away...unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. To write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think.... | |
 | José Garcez Ghirardi - Criticism - 2000 - 154 pages
...que as apontava, quer pela admiração com que eram enunciadas:" Yet great labour directed bygreat abilities is never wholly lost: if they frequently...struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetcbed, they were often wortb the carríage.(..) If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness... | |
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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 out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage.... 
