 | 1835 - 932 pages
...praise. By poetry we mean, Ihe art of employing words in such a manner as lo produce an illusion on llie imagination, — the art of doing by means of words...does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets lias described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour ¡md felicity of their diction, and... | |
 | 448 pages
...effort of the human mind ; it is the art of painting by words the passions and emotions of the soul in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination by words what the painter does by means of colours. It is the eloquence and overflowings of a mind... | |
 | J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 102 pages
...of fiction, whether penned in prosaic or versified diction. An able Reviewer* has described it to be the art of employing words in such a manner as to...means of words, what the painter does by means of colour. Dr. Johnson has defined it to be " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 pages
...excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner...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 - 1840 - 464 pages
...illusion 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 - 1846 - 782 pages
...excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we on Macaulay iust notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled. " Ai imagination bodici forth The forms... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...passions throw over it, but in designs, according to her own conception. Poetry, as Macauley has it, is the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. It does more ; it infinitely transcends painting : " painting gives the object itself; poetry,... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4: poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque positn 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 L 10t 180. Si. 495). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passion... | |
 | 1854 - 382 pages
...excludes many metrical compositions which on other grounds deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to pioduce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does l>y... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 pages
...excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve' the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner...universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their dic^ tion, and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which... | |
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By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. 
