 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1893 - 244 pages
...in verse. Our definition 20 excludes many metrical compositions which, on oth^r grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing...by means of words what the painter does by means of 25 colors. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Authors, English - 1893 - 256 pages
...in verse. Our definition 20 excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing...by means of words what the painter does by means of 25 colors. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor... | |
 | Robert Frederick Brewer - English language - 1893 - 404 pages
...that, in its widest sense, poetry is creation or invention of ideal beauty.* Macaulay says of it : " By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce illusion on the imagination — the art of doing by words what the painter does by means of colours."... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Authors, English - 1893 - 222 pages
...on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of 2b colors. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor and felicity of their diction, and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1894 - 96 pages
...writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing...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 vigor and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 90 pages
...writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing...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 vigor and... | |
 | English literature - 1895 - 508 pages
...writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing...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 vigor and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1895 - 934 pages
...writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the d gave orders that all should be in readiness for... ߀ 0 "m 1895 Longmans, Green, and co."K meaiib of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 256 pages
...definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. -/J^v poetry we mean, .the art of employing words in such...of words what the painter does by means of colours. J| Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 298 pages
...in verse. *\ Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. [By poetry we mean, the art of employing...in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imaginationjthe art of doing by means of words what the painter-dt5e?oy means of colours. Thus the... | |
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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 colors. 
