...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...forms of matter nor represented the operations of the intellect. " Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of...

...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...forms of matter • nor represented the operations of the intellect. " Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of...

...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.' The whole of the account is well worth reading : it was a subject for which Dr. Johnson's powers both...

...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...

...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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his...

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...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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his...

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...endeavour : but unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses Their thoughts are often new but seldom natural ;...are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering how he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found...

...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...