 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1902 - 364 страници
...art of employing words in such a manner as\ . to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art 30 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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 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...which they convey of the art in which he excelled : 5 " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 666 страници
...5uch._a_manner as tol prodttee"~air'illuslon on the imagination, the art of doing byf means^-df-words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the...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 shape, and gives... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 310 страници
...praise. By poetry we mean the ?rt nf pmplnymg words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on 5 the imagination, the art of doing by means of words...colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described itTTn lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction, and still more valuable... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 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...does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets l has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction, and... | |
 | Thomson Jay Hudson - 1904 - 424 страници
...of colors. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in l1nes universally admired for the vigor and felicity of their diction, and still more valuable on account of the just notion wh1ch they convey of the art in which he excelled. "' As imagination bodies forth The forms of things... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 страници
...powers." Professor Wilson says, " Poetry is the intellect colored by feeling." Alsot Macaulay, "Poetry is the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors." Of course, the kinship of art and poetry is due to their common dependence upon inspiration... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 296 страници
...in 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. Stated in the form of a syllogism, the argument appears as follows : — All who yield to illusions... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1906 - 1522 страници
...aptuque remis. (d) Trace the origin of the following definition of poetry : — g " By poetry we mean the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by uieans of colours." (e) What are the Silver-Lntin equivalents of the following : — 4j Auction-room,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 страници
...POETRY. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on . Deep versed colors.— Alacaulay. Truth shines the brighter clad in verse. — Pope. Poetry reveals to us the loveliness... | |
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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... 
