 By' poetry, we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours.  John Milton: An Essay - Page 22by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 81 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on oilier grounds, deserve llio highest praise. By poetry we mean, Ihe art of employing words in such... | |
 | Fashion - 448 pages
...effort of the human mind ; it is the art of painting by words the passions and emotions of the soul in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination by words what the painter does by means of colours. It is the eloquence and overflowings of a mind... | |
 | J. Hemming Webb - Poetry - 1839 - 102 pages
...of fiction, whether penned in prosaic or versified diction. An able Reviewer* has described it to be the art of employing words in such a manner as to...doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colour. Dr. Johnson has defined it to be " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes...of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the... | |
 | William Jones - Characters and characteristics - 1841 - 194 pages
...pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many...doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the... | |
 | William Jones - Characters and characteristics - 1841 - 186 pages
...pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many...doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...unsoandness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in yerse, nor even all good writing in verse. Onr ~ means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...passions throw over it, but in designs, according to her own conception. Poetry, as Macauley has it, is the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. It does more ; it infinitely transcends painting : " painting gives the object itself;... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4: poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque positn Mac. Ess. I. 7: poetry, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination (cf. 327. J. Lives L 10t 180. Si. 495). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passion... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 780 pages
...pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even ess of judgment and an immutability of purpose which some writers have thought inconsistent with means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the... | |
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