 Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of those which repel the imagination; but religion must be...  Poetics: An Essay on Poetry - Página 54por Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1852 - 294 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 670 páginas
...can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1895 - 660 páginas
...can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - 1899 - 572 páginas
...following Pope, declares that "the essence of poetry is invention," and goes on to say that " poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." Wordsworth maintained that " poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling;" while Coleridge,... | |
 | Stendhal - 1907 - 258 páginas
...pleasure than language not so arranged, and that, as Johnson says, a metrical composition pleases us ' by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford.' If it is true that there can be poetry without metre, alliteration or rime, just as there are pictures... | |
 | Stendhal - 1907 - 254 páginas
...pleasure than language not so arranged, and that, as Johnson says, a metrical composition pleases us ' by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford.1 If it is true that there can be poetry withoot metre, alliteration or rime, just as there... | |
 | Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 196 páginas
...can receive no grace from / novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 páginas
...can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1912 - 1214 páginas
...writer puts Into it a portion of his own spiritual vitality, so that, as Dr. Johnson says, "poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford." The analysis or separating the structure into parts, is prosodical criticism; examining why the presentation... | |
 | 1843 - 1098 páginas
...can receive no grace from novelty of sentiment, and very little from novelty of expression. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind, than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - 1914 - 346 páginas
...unexpected, surprises and delights. S. JOHNSON, Lives of the Poets (Waller), 1779-1781. Selection. Poetry pleases by exhibiting an idea more grateful to the mind than things themselves afford. This effect proceeds from the display of those parts of nature which attract, and the concealment of... | |
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