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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. "
Exercises Adapted to Hiley's: English Grammar - Page 125
by Richard Hiley - 1858 - 185 pages
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pages
...design of shewing in what way the early state of society is favorable to poetical excellence, says, " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, the lines and lineaments of the phantoms which...
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The Border Magazine, Volume 1

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...
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

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....
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...of showing in what way the early state of society is favourable to poetical excellence, says :— " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, the lines and lineaments of the phantoms which...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pages
...of showing in what way the early state of society is favourable to poetical excellence, says : — " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, the lines and lineaments of the phantoms which...
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Treatises on Poetry, Modern Romance, and Rhetoric: Being the Articles ...

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....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

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....
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

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....
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A Practical System of Rhetoric; or the principles and rules of style ...

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...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

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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