 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 380 ページ
...those who were trained up in the school of Dryden. " To write on their plan," he has truly said, " it was at least necessary to read and think. No man...descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditionary imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables." 14... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1839 - 382 ページ
...those who were trained up in the school of Dryden. " To write on their plan," he has truly said, " it was at least necessary to read and think. No man...descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, 'by traditionary imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables." all... | |
 | 590 ページ
...threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truths — if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often...plan, it was at least necessary to read and think." In the same school with these " Metaphysical Poets ;" and like those of Donne, Quarles, and Herrick,... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1843 - 388 ページ
...those who were trained up in the school of Dryden. " To write on their plan," he has truly said, " it was at least necessary to read and think. No man...descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditionary imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables." Johnson... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1846 - 714 ページ
...frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected tmth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often...and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and rolubility of syllables. particularities, the prosscenes of life, than he be retrieved, or something... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1848 - 796 ページ
...unexpected truth : if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage :' and that, ' to write on their plan, it was at least necessary to read and think 10.' These remarks eminently apply to the arguments and illustrations with which Featly's Sermon abounds... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 544 ページ
...those who were trained up in the school of Dryden. " To write on their plan," he has truly said, " it was at least necessary to read and think. No man...by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables." Johnson has also said, that the veneration with which Dryden's name is pronounced by every cultivator... | |
 | William Cowper - 1853 - 526 ページ
...to those who were trained up in the school of Dryden. "To write on their plan," he has truly said, " it was at least necessary to read and think. No man...could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the 14 The same kind of reformation has been thus described in France, I know not by what author : L'n... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 ページ
...frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth ; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often...their plan, it was at least necessary to read and t hi iik. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 ページ
...frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth : if their conceits were farfetched, they were often...descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme, and volubility of syllables. In perusing the works of this... | |
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To write on their plan it was, at least, necessary to read and think. No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer, by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery,... 
