 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...continued as it is through several clauses. Suppose that the latter part of this example had read, " As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions,...outlines of certainty become more and more definite, as the weight of probability increases, the lines and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up,... | |
 | 1833 - 360 pages
...THE writer of an article in the Edinburgh Review, * to which we would refer our readers, observes, " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion ou the eye of the body ; and as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...rare among those who parlicipatc most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...continued as it is through several clauses. Suppose that the latter part of this example had read, " As the light of know-ledge breaks in upon its exhibitions,...outlines of certainty become more and more definite, as the weight of probability increases, the lines and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...continued as it is through several clauses. Suppose that the latter part of this example had read, " As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions,...outlines of certainty become more and more definite, as the weight of probability increases, the lines and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up,... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...one of the ablest exponents of this unfavourable view of the effects of civilization on the arts, " produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a . * See the Dialogue between Socrates and lo. magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...rare among those who participate most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a * See the Dialogue between Socrates and lo. magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body.... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 pages
...design of showing in what way the early state of society is favorable to poetical excellence, says, " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in & dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, aa the outlines of certainty... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 pages
...rare among those who participate most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
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Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age. 
