 | 1796 - 690 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind, them ; and produced combinations of confuted magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loA : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe con. ceils, they likewife fometimfi ilruck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 358 pages
...no limits; they left not only rcafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 726 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - 498 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confuted magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 498 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 494 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes (truck... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 478 pages
...had no limits; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft; if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck out... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1795 - 610 pages
...no limits ; they left not only reafon but fancy behind them ; and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft : if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they likewife fometimes ftruck... | |
 | 1801 - 860 pages
...they left not only reafon but fancy behind, and produced combinations of confufed magnificence, which not only could not be credited, but could not be imagined....labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly loft: if they frequently threw away their wit upon falfe conceits, they fometimes ftruck out unexpected... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 476 pages
...limits ; they left not only reafon but • fency behind them ; and produced combinations of confnfed magnificence, that not only could not be credited,...Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is Sever wholly loft; if they frequently threw away their wit upon falle conceits, they likewife fometimes... | |
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Yet great labour, directed by great abilities, is never wholly lost: if they frequently threw away their wit upon false conceits, they likewise sometimes struck out unexpected truth; if their conceits were far-fetched, they were often worth the carriage.... 
