 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - Liczba stron: 664
...sublime, they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole - their amplification had no limits ; they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations...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... | |
 | Hans Meier - 1916 - Liczba stron: 124
...Greuel. Die Metaphysical Poets, wie er Donne, Suckling, Waller, Denham, Cowley nennt,197) left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations...that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined.198) Andererseits paßt ihm eine allzu einfache Sprache auch nicht. Darüber spricht er sich... | |
 | David Patrick, William Geddie - 1926 - Liczba stron: 882
...combinations of confused magnificence that not only could not be credited but could not be imagined. Yet, if they frequently threw away their wit upon false...conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected troth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. Such is Johnson's explanation... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1926 - Liczba stron: 236
...What they wanted of the sublime they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole ; . . . they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations...could not be credited, but could not be imagined." The " Spasmodics," like the writers of " Heroic " plays in Dryden's time, generated from the corruption... | |
 | 1880 - Liczba stron: 1128
...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...were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage. ... If their greatness seldom elevates, their acuteness often surprises ; if the imagination is not... | |
 | Julia Ashtiany - 1990 - Liczba stron: 552
...Metaphysicals, these poets "left not only reason but fancy behind them" and "produced combinations . . . that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined". Ibn al-Muctazz's energies were directed towards the discovery of new and startling comparisons: the... | |
 | Stephen H. Webb - 1993 - Liczba stron: 226
...sublime they endeavored to supply by hyperbole; their amplification had no limits: they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations...could not be credited, but could not be imagined" (21). Nevertheless, "they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth: if their conceits were far-fetched,... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 1996 - Liczba stron: 274
...what was generally spoken, was surpassed in both cases, although he added of the metaphysicals that 'they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth:...were farfetched, they were often worth the carriage' (Lives, vol. i, pp. 20-1). Even as he advocated a writing whose authority was of a communal, apparently... | |
 | José Garcez Ghirardi - 2000 - Liczba stron: 154
...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... | |
 | Philip Smallwood - 2003 - Liczba stron: 234
...and the blame. This is the center of gravity on which his judgment of metaphysical poetry is poised: "Yet great labour directed by great abilities is never...far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage." 50 Dual-valuation criteria of this kind enable critics to articulate their mixed feelings—the coexistence... | |
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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,... 
