 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - Liczba stron: 688
...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." Yet a happy trifle was now and then hit upon. At rare intervals nature seems to have broken through the... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - Liczba stron: 448
...they left not only reason but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confused magvificence, that not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined. Yet great labour, directed bj great abilities, is never wholly lost; if they frequently threw away their wit npon false conceits,... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - Liczba stron: 660
...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... | |
 | 1896 - Liczba stron: 840
...they endeavoured to supply by hyperbole — their amplifications hod no limits, they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations...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... | |
 | Edmund Gosse - 1899 - Liczba stron: 420
...supply by hyperbole ; his amplification had no limits; he left not only reason but fancy behind him ; and produced combinations of confused magnificence,...could not be credited, but could not be imagined." It is the same admirable critic who observes that, if Donne was " upon common subjects unnecessarily... | |
 | 1901 - Liczba stron: 948
...to supply by hyperbole — their amplifications had no limits, tliey left not only reason but fanoy behind them, and produced combinations of confused...could not be credited but could not be imagined. Yet, if they frequently t lire w away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | Wilhelm Trost - 1904 - Liczba stron: 86
...supply by hyperbole; his amplification had no limits: he left not only reason hut fancy behind him: and produced combinations of confused magnificence,...could not be credited, but could not be imagined.' First: her eyes kindle other ladies' eyes, Then from their beams their jewels' lusters rise. And from... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1905 - Liczba stron: 530
...they endeavoured 59 to supply by hyperbole ; their amplification had no limits : . they left not only reason but fancy behind them, and produced combinations...that not only could not be credited, but could not beimagined. _t Yetjgreat labour directed by great abilities is never wholly 60 lost : if they frequently... | |
 | 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... | |
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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,... 
