 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 438 pages
...never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ;...are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 pages
...natural ; they are not obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. "But Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered... | |
 | 1925 - 610 pages
...seldom natural; they are not obvious, but neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. But Wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1925 - 424 pages
...seldom natural; they are not obvious, but neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. But wit, abstracted from its effects upon the hearer, may be more rigorously and philosophically considered... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 pages
...the metaphysical poets have seldom j risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they I are not obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.... | |
 | Laurie Magnus - 1926 - 618 pages
...modulation was во imperfect, that they were only found to be versea by counting the syllables. . . . Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ;...are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 252 pages
...never found it, wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ;...are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders i more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were i ever found.... | |
 | Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - 1928 - 262 pages
...seldom natural; they are not obvious, but neither are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. SAMUEL JOHNSON, Life of Cowley. Antithesis has been a very popular device with selfconscious writers,... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...ready-made from one generation of poets to the next. As a result, he rejected metaphysical wit because "their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural;...are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed theni, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found."... | |
 | Wayne C. Booth - 1988 - 576 pages
...never found it, wonders how he missed; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural;...are they just; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found.... | |
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Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of industry they were ever found. 
