 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...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." "Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...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." "Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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. From this account of their compositions, it will be readily inferred,... | |
 | 1878 - عدد الصفحات: 446
...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 - 1879 - عدد الصفحات: 510
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs and their subtlety surprizes ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased Milton tried the metaphysical style only in his lines on Hobson... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 694
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learn- 50 ing instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. 9. From this account of their compositions, it will be readily... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 626
...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...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... | |
 | Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...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... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learn- 50 ing instructs, and their subtlety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased. 9. 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,... 
