 | William D. Hall - 1898 - 326 страници
...happiest minds." — SHELLEY. "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." — MACAULAY. 240. Poetry may be classified as narrative, lyric, dramatic, and didactic. 241.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 254 страници
...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, 25 and still more valuable on account of the just notion which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1909 - 216 страници
...praise. 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...has described it, in lines universally admired for 10 the vigour and felicity of their diction, and still more valuable on account of the just notion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 188 страници
...praise. By poetry 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...does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets Gas described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of 'their diction, and still... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1899 - 280 страници
...described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor and felicity of their diction, and still 20 more valuable on account of the just notion which...they convey of the art in which he excelled : — "As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 334 страници
...praise. 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. Thus the greatest of poets has described it in lines universally admired for the vigor and... | |
 | William Franklin Webster - 1900 - 318 страници
...praise. 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. Thus the greatest of the poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 328 страници
...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... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 446 страници
...praise. 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. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigor and... | |
 | Albert B. Olston - 1902 - 440 страници
...verse. . . . 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." He further says : " In an enlightened age there will be much intelligence, much science, much... | |
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By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition 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... 
