 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1896 - 840 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, if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1899 - 822 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 a happy trifle was now and then hit upon. At rare intervals nature seems to have broken through the... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1901 - 948 pages
...left not only reason but fanoy behind them, and produced combinations of confused magnificence that not only 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - English literature - 1907 - 424 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... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - Literary Criticism - 1923 - 438 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,... 
