 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.  Essay on Milton - Page 62by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 160 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...praise. By poetry we mean, Ihe art of employing words in such a manner as lo produce an illusion on llie imagination, — the art of doing by means of words...does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets lias described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour ¡md felicity of their diction, and... | |
 | Fashion - 448 pages
...effort of the human mind ; it is the art of painting by words the passions and emotions of the soul in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination by words what the painter does by means of colours. It is the eloquence and overflowings of a mind... | |
 | J. Hemming Webb - Poetry - 1839 - 102 pages
...of fiction, whether penned in prosaic or versified diction. An able Reviewer* has described it to be the art of employing words in such a manner as to...means of words, what the painter does by means of colour. Dr. Johnson has defined it to be " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...poetry we mean, not of course all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other...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... | |
 | Eliphalet L. Rice - American literature - 1846 - 432 pages
...passions throw over it, but in designs, according to her own conception. Poetry, as Macauley has it, is the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. It does more ; it infinitely transcends painting : " painting gives the object itself; poetry,... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4: poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque positn Mac. Ess. I. 7: poetry, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination (cf. 327. J. Lives L 10t 180. Si. 495). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passion... | |
 | William Cooper Scott - Religion and poetry - 1853 - 338 pages
...But the whole force of this writer's argument lies in the definition which he has given to Poetry. " By Poetry, we mean the art of employing words in such...manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination. * * * * Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1853 - 658 pages
...unsoundness. By poetry wo 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 wo mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the... | |
 | Books - 1854 - 382 pages
...unsoundiiess. 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...the art of employing words in such a manner as to pioduce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words what the painter does l>y... | |
 | Henry Pitman - 1856 - 1048 pages
...is the music of language, answering to the music of the mind," says Hazlitt. Macaulay says, it is " The art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colours." And thus Shakspere has defined it : — As the imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown,... | |
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