| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1859 - 768 páginas
...writing in verse. Our definition «eludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing...doing by means of words what the painter does by means oí colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour... | |
| David Masson - 1860 - 282 páginas
...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 - 1897 - 1102 páginas
...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 words in such a mannei as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter... | |
| Eduard Fiedler - 1861 - 438 páginas
...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4 : poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque posita. Mac. Ess. I. 7: poetry, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination (cf. 327. J. Lives I. 104. 180. Si. 496). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passim... | |
| John Sherer - 1870 - 526 páginas
...same essay, Lord Macaulay favours us with his definition of what poetry is. He tells us that it is " the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion in the imagination ; the art of doing, by means of words, what the painter does by means of colours.... | |
| Ephraim Hunt - 1872 - 658 páginas
...to combine those elements in such a manner as to make up a man, — a real, living, individual man? mean the art of employing words in such a manner as...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... | |
| 1872 - 660 páginas
...on the imagination, — the art of doing 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 felicity of their diction, and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 1090 páginas
...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...the art of doing by means of words what the painter docs by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 páginas
...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...in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the hnngination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1877 - 112 páginas
...• 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... | |
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