 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred,... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1895 - 650 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
 | Matthew Arnold - 1895 - 652 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | Charles Edwyn Vaughan - 1896 - 330 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1899 - 216 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtilty surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased." Dryden's treatment in this poem of the disease which had carried... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1899 - 626 pages
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subtility surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires is seldom pleased.' And so in the following curious passage from Donne's Dedication... | |
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together ; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought,... 
