| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 482 páginas
...wrong, lofe their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be faid to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1806 - 294 páginas
...poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature for life j 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. Pryden confesses of himself and his... | |
| Abraham Cowley - 1809 - 296 páginas
...name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; 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 poetsA allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of' himself and his... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...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. Drydcn confesses of himself and his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 páginas
...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. Bryden confesses of himself and his... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 páginas
...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... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 410 páginas
...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... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1819 - 360 páginas
...great 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... | |
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