 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 420
...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 - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 486
...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 - 1818 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...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, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...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. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - عدد الصفحات: 476
...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. From this account of their compositions it will be readily inferred,... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 428
...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. " From this account of their compositions it will be readily... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1822 - عدد الصفحات: 426
...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. " From this account of their compositions it will be readily... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 398
...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. " From this account of their compositions it will be readily... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...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. " From this account of their compositions it will be readily... | |
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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,... 
