With all his reliance on nature then, and with all his scorn of the impracticable and arrogant conceits of learning as he finds it, and of the quackeries that are practised in its name, this is no empiric.
Nature is elder and greater than he, and requires him to learn of her, and makes little of his mere conceits and dogmas.
Mr. Bacon answered, 'Because he had stolen many of his sentences and conceits out of Cornelius Tacitus.
You have dwelt so much among the light conceits of the French court, Don Luis, you appear to have forgotten that the heart of a Castilian girl is too true, and too sincere, to meet such rhapsodies with favor.
It is upheld by the venerable authority of ages, by an intense general conviction of it, and by multitudes of subtle conceits and apparent arguments.
His artistic courage, which dares to carry out capricious conceits to their extremest consequences, won their approbation.
So Philo made cardinal virtues of the four rivers of Eden, and through like allegorical conceits transformed the Book of Genesis into a system of Hellenistic ethics.
The courtly German love-songs passing by this name were affected by the conceitsand conventions of the Provencal poetry upon which they were modelled.
I am no way facetious, nor disposed for the mirth and galliardise of company; yet in one dream I can compose a whole comedy, behold the action, apprehend the jests, and laugh myself awake at the conceits thereof.
Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination.
Elizabeth, whose productions are marked by affected conceits and high-flown diction.
He is distinguished as Heywood the epigrammatist; a title fairly won by the man who has left six centuries of epigrams, collected and adjusted as many English proverbs in his verse, besides the quaint conceits of "crossing of proverbs.
We may smile at these repeated attempts of the learned English, in their inventions of alphabets, to establish the correspondence of pronunciation with orthography, and at their vowelly conceits to melodise our orthoepy.
The second, that it puzzleth and perplexeth theconceits of many, that perhaps would otherwise co-operate with him; and makes a man walk almost alone, to his own ends.
Perhaps the most pernicious of all the conceits fostered by the type of progress we owe to science is the conceit that we have outgrown this older experience.
Enthusiasm is founded neither on reason nor divine revelation, but rises from the conceits of a warmed or overweening imagination.
Such conceitsas ships moving on waves or time with wings were also in favour.
Hood had an abundance of a certain sort of wit, the wit of odd analogies, of remote yet familiar resemblances, of quaintconceits and humourous and unexpected quirks.
To cast the thoughts and conceitsof an individualistic writer into another vehicle of speech is in itself no easy matter.
The morose submitted without protest to the silly sallies of the jester or buffoon, and the latter on his part saw without ridicule the prosaic conceits of the small-souled philistine.
All of them are stuffed with the affected conceits fashionable at the time.
The exquisite conceits in her illustrations were charmingly rendered by the delicacy of her work.
I entirely agree with you, as to the ill tendency of the affected doubts of some philosophers, and fantastical conceits of others.
He found the polite world tired of frigid conceits and extravagant sentimentality, above all tired of the licence of the poets and the tricks which they were taking with the French language.
I would here insert, were not the radiant lustre of her conceitsso great and glorious, that they would absolutely extinguish the dim-sightedness of my fancy.
The inclosed ballad on that business is, I confess, too local, but I laughed myself at some conceits in it, though I am convinced in my conscience that there are a good many heavy stanzas in it too.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "conceits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
