 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1804 - 740 pages
...delightful to us." These definitions, it iscvident, make no difference between poetry and Johnson tells us that poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. The true poet enables you to feel what you remember to have felt before, and to feel it with a great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precept, and therefore... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poeuy is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry under-' takes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasmg precepts, ani therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 336 pages
...as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore... | |
 | 1816 - 828 pages
...us satisfy ourselves with the account given of it by this great writer. " Poetry," he observes, t " is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason." If, by this statement, he intended to define the exalted art of which he speaks, ноте critical... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic poeuy undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most importanttruthsby the most pleasing precepts, and therefore... | |
 | Thomas Green - Literature - 1810 - 262 pages
...exercise the understanding, not to move the affections. — In his remarks on Milton, he defines Poetry, " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help oi reason." Epic Poetry, he says, " undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...as it requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1816 - 802 pages
...us satisfy ourselves with the account given of it by this great writer. " Poetry," heobserves,t "* is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason." If, by this statement, he intended to define the exalted art of which he speaks, some critical objections... | |
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. 
