 Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen.  The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ... - Page xii1801Full view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 pages
...happiness of language. [B]ya more noble and more adequate conception, that wit defined. [may] be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ... that which he that never found it, wonders how he missed.... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...thought to happiness of language. " If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 262 pages
...balance or opposition of sense : If by a more noble and more adequate conception, that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just ; if it be that which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | 1922 - 616 pages
...explanation, but his analysis of the phenomena is still helpful. The true matter of poetry, he says, is that "which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just." It is here that the poet always exercises one of the greatest... | |
 | D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - 254 pages
...most great writers we can accept without difficulty. They are, to adapt a phrase of Johnson's, that which ' is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just'. But Hardy's poetry contains eccentricities of language... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...so well expressed," and added: "If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as wit which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it wonders how... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1988 - 576 pages
...Johnson some advice, mostly implicit, about taking care with our everyday 8. "If . . . that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Christopher Norris, Nigel Mapp - 1993 - 344 pages
...thought to happiness of language. If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit, which is at once natural and new, that which, though not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...inform his formulation about wit: "If by a more noble and more adequate conception that be considered as Wit which is at once natural and new, that which though not obvious is, upon its first production, acknowledged to be just; if it be that, which he that never found it, wonders how... | |
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