 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - 1985 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, and the second rational admiration . . . Their attempts were always analytick; they broke every image into fragments; and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature, or the scenes... | |
 | Charles Martindale - 1990 - عدد الصفحات: 340
...Johnson's criticisms of the metaphysical poets can be pressed against Ovid's episode: Their .it tempts were always analytick : they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature or the scenes... | |
 | Allen Reddick - 1996 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...and forcible he weakens and makes ridiculous by branching it into small parts." As Johnson puts it: "Their attempts were always analytick: they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities, the prospects of nature or the scenes... | |
 | Daniel C. Snell - 1993 - عدد الصفحات: 168
...Samuel Johnson (edited by Allan Wendt; Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965), p. 142 1 Introduction Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. [The Metaphysical poets'] attempts... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - عدد الصفحات: 292
...the conventions, 'Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never said before . . . Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation.'47 Especially, they could not have... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - عدد الصفحات: 429
...thinness, meagreness] of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. Those writers who lay on the watch for novelty could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytick:... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - عدد الصفحات: 238
...worst) theoretical criticism in the wake of Derrida. So, when Johnson writes of the metaphysicals, "[t]heir attempts were always analytick: they broke every image into fragments, and could no more represent by their slender conceits and laboured particularities the prospects of nature or the scenes... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1967 - عدد الصفحات: 178
...handsaw." And we have another slice of Johnsonian diction in the following that Tate cites: "These writers who lay on the watch for novelty, could have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former observation. Their attempts were always analytic;... | |
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