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...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to* be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his...

...wrong, lose then rifjht to the name of poete; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : elves о intellect Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of limself...

...never found it wonders how he missed ; to wit of this kind the metaphysical poets have seldom risen. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural : they are not obvious, but neither arc they just; and the reader far from wonderina that he missed them, wonders more frequently by what...

...wrong lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to he poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his...

...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." The whole of the account is well worth reading ; it was a subject for which Dr. Johnson's powers both...

...the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature for life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his...

...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing: they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his...

...their right to the name of poets, for they did not imitate anything ; they neither copied nature from life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented...obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader wonders by what perversity of industry they were ever found. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked...

...painted the forms if matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Their thoughts are often ne*, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but neither are they just ; and the reader wonders by what perversity of industry they were ever found. The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked...