 fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - Page 431edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | William Franklin Webster - English language - 1900 - 318 pages
...a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the...of credulity which almost amounts to a partial and tempo rary derangement of the intellect. Hence, of all people, children are the most imaginative. They... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 364 pages
...fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to 10 poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the...suppositions require a degree of credulity which almost 15 amounts to a partial and temporary derangement of the intellect. Hence of all people children are... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 310 pages
...indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are 20 jn^r; hut thf premises are false. After the first suppositions have...partial and temporary derangement of the intellect. 25 Hence of all<^eqple/vrii1f1rprjQrp the most imaginative. They abandonttlemselves without reserve... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 pages
...just j but the premises are false,. After tne first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to consistent ; but those first suppositions require...imaginative. They abandon themselves without reserve" lcTl:veryulusion. Every image which is strongly presented to their mental eye produces on them the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 pages
...a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent; but those 15 first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1903 - 644 pages
...doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth ofjnoadngsj. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Animal behavior - 1892 - 1058 pages
...pleasure ought to be called unsoundness.' Again : ' Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the...of all people, children are the most imaginative. . . . No man, whatever his sensibility may be, is ever affected by Hamlet or Lear as a little girl... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1913 - 824 pages
...indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but tEe premises are false] After the first suppositions have...the intellect. Hence of all people children are the kl^tiv, XAO V VVVS ^"VV most imaginative. They abandon themselves without reserve to every illusion.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1914 - 192 pages
...a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the...degree of credulity which almost amounts to a partial 10 and temporary derangement of the intellect. Hence of all people children are the most imaginative.... | |
 | Meyer Howard Abrams - Literary Criticism - 1971 - 420 pages
...can write or even enjoy poetry 'without a certain unsoundness of mind.' The truth of poetry is 'the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the premises are false.' We cannot unite the incompatible advantages of reality and deception, the clear discernment .of truth... | |
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