Then, Sir, what is poetry?" JOHNSON: "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is. Calcutta Review - Page 11857Full view - About this book
| James Boswell - 1900 - 546 pages
...sixteen strings at the knees of his breeches." BOSWELL. " Then, Sir, what is poetry ? " JOHNSON. " Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....light is ; but it is not easy to tell what it is." On Friday, April 12, I dined with him at our friend Tom Davies's, where we met Mr. Cradock, a Leicestershire... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pages
...Sixteenstring-Jack* towered above the common mark." BOSWELL : "Then, Sir, what is poetry?" JOHNSON : " k with him on any subject on which he was not qualified...and that his learning resembled Garrick's acting, i On Friday, April 12, 1 dined with him at our friend Tom Davies's, where we met Mr Cradock,213 of Leicestershire,... | |
| Henry Morse Stephens - 1900 - 618 pages
...poor Boswell exclaimed in perplexity, " Then, sir, what is poetry ? " and that Dr. Johnson replied, " Why, sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....light is ; but it is not easy to tell what it is." Does Mr. Ruskin tell us what poetry is when he defines it as " the suggestion by the imagination of... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 726 pages
...Sixteen-string Jack 2 towered above the common mark.' BOSWELL. ' Then, Sir, what is poetry ? ' JOHNSON. ' Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....light is ; but it is not easy to tell what it is.' On Friday, April 12, I dined with him at our friend Tom Davies's, where we met Mr. Cradock, of Leicestershire,... | |
| James Boswell - 1852
...Sixteen-string Jack1 towered above the common mark." BOSWELL : Then, Sir, what is poetry ?" JOHNSON : " Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not. We all know what light is, but it ia not easy to tell what it is." On Friday, April 12, I dined with him at our friend Tom Davies's,... | |
| James Boswell - 1923 - 372 pages
...Sixteen-string Jack towered above the common mark." P^BOSWELL. "Then, Sir, what is poetry ?" J JOHNSON. "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....light is ; but it is not easy to \ tell what it is." . \_~ A Visit to Bath Soon after this day, he went to Bath with Mr. and Mrs. Thrale. I had never seen... | |
| Alfred Edward Newton - 1923 - 174 pages
...Did the making of the definitions give you much trouble? Dr. JOHNSON. Thought rather than trouble. We all know what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is. Mrs. DEL4NEY. But, sir, how came you to define pastern as the knee of a horse ? Dr. JOHNSON. Ignorance,... | |
| Stephen Phillips, Galloway Kyle - 1925 - 490 pages
...alive to-day, and one said to him, " Sir, what is the New Poetry ? " his answer would run as before, " Why, sir, it is much easier to say what it is not." If pressed for a more explicit answer he might say something rude — he might even say, " Sir, it... | |
| Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pages
...often been worse employed than in dignifying the amorous fury of a raving girl. Ibid., W, IV, 15. THEN, Sir, what is poetry? Why, Sir, it is much easier to...what light is, but it is not easy to tell what it is. Ibid., B, III, 38. THE song of Comus has airiness and jollity; but, what may recommend Milton's morals... | |
| Philip Stevick - 1971 - 348 pages
...experimental fiction is doing. Boswell reports his having asked Johnson what poetry is. Johnson replied, " "Why, Sir, it is much easier to say what it is not....light is; but it is not easy to tell what it is.' " To tell what recent fiction is, we must tell what recent fiction is not. And the place to begin is... | |
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