 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 colors.  Critical and historical essays - Page 4by Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1896 - 122 pages
...unsoundness of mind, if any- 15 thing which gives so much pleasure ought, to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even...grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean 20 the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 282 pages
...anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean, not, of course, all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in...the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 88 pages
...certain unsounduess of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even...compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest 10 praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 190 pages
...certain unsoundness of mind, if any thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even...the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. Thus the greatest of poets has 20 described it, in lines universally admired... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 682 pages
...certain unsoundness_of mind, if any thing which gives~so mucrPpTeasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even.../ By poetry we mean the art of employing words in f)'fi \ \§ such a manner as to produce an illusion on the * imagination,' lihe~Tirt oT'dbJng_by means... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 266 pages
...unsoundness of mind, if any- 15 thing which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even...grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean 20 the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art... | |
 | John Caird - 1898 - 416 pages
...declines. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such...art of doing, by means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it in lines which convey a just... | |
 | William D. Hall - 1898 - 326 pages
...things." — MATTHEW ARNOLD. "The best and happiest thoughts of the be&t and happiest minds." — SHELLEY. "The art of employing words in such a manner as to...the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors." — MACAULAY. 240. Poetry may be classified as narrative, lyric, dramatic,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 188 pages
...certain unsoundness of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even...we mean the art of employing words in such a manner 30 as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 266 pages
...unsoundness of mind, if anything which gives so much pleasure ought to be called unsoundness. By poetry we 10 mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing...we mean the art of employing words in such a manner 15 as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter... | |
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