conceits

Only two qualms: editing needed to stricter; and certain conceits simply did not work.

notes from the peanut gallery Dean Francis Alfar 2003

Only two qualms: editing needed to stricter; and certain conceits simply did not work.

Archive 2003-12-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2003

But God takes notice of the vain conceits men have of themselves in their prosperity when the mind is lifted up with the condition, and often, for the humbling of the spirit, finds a way to bring down the estate.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

This is, after all, the primary symptom of disease in the public taste, which has set us on writing this review -- that critics all round are crying: "An ill - constructed whole, no doubt; but full of beautiful passages" -- the word "passages" turning out to mean, in plain English, conceits.

Literary and General Lectures and Essays Charles Kingsley 1847

The vulgar judges, which are nine parts in ten of all nations, who call conceits and jingles wit, who see Ovid full of them, and Chaucer altogether without them, will think me little less than mad, for preferring the

Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730

But your home-bred ingrossing Proiecters will at last finde, there is a great difference betwixt saying and doing, or those that thinks their directions can be as soone and easily performed, as they can conceit them; or that their conceits are the fitest things to bee put in practise, or their countenances maintaine Plantations.

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England 1624

This is something different, however, from creating carefully considered "conceits" in the first place.

Postmodernism 2010

Poetry was seen as a branch of rhetoric; one learned to make one's ideas more persuasive and affective by adorning those ideas with images, extended metaphors, and 'conceits' (as they were called).

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

From these ingenious "conceits" we turn to a few thoughts on the present condition and history of the plant.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

The translation, in spite of its inaccuracies and its "conceits," is, by virtue of its sustained dignity and vigour, one of the noblest monuments of

Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman