 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...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 wil upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1816 - 486 pages
...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 - 1818 - 410 pages
...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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 466 pages
...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, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 476 pages
...behind them ; and produced combinations of ' confused magnificence, that not only could not be fs~>.' 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... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 306 pages
...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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 348 pages
...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 labour, directed by great ahilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 pages
...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 - English literature - 1825 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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... | |
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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,... 
