...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. Sentiments or subjects otherwise great or pleasing and worthy...

...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. [Johnson, 1783/1964:2-3] Not very much was obscure to Dr. Johnson,...

...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. (Johnson, 1968, pp. 403-4) The position of'wit' in Metaphysical...

...for 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. . . . Their wish was only to say what they hoped had been never...

...illustrations, comparisons, and allusions ; their learning instructs, and their subdety surprises ; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.' (1905: 11—12). See also the discussion of Gongora's ^Junto...

...drama of the senses and of the soul. Hence, "their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought, and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased" (para. 56). For Eliot, and many twentieth-century readers, this...

...for 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."8 Morgan, on the other hand, revels in admiration, in the wonderment...

...for 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" (Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets, ed. George Birkbeck Hill...

...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.12 It would simply confirm the judgement of Dryden or Johnson,...

...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." teenth Century (1921). TS Eliot's essay "The Metaphysical Poets"...