 ... because the imagination can fancy to itself things more great, strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account, it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in our own...  The Spectator - Page 901739Full view - About this book
 | 1767 - 334 pages
...ftrange, or beautiful, than the eye everfaw, and is ftill fenfible of fome defect in what it has feen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour...fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the flow advances which fhe makes from one feafon to another, or to obferve her conduct in the fucceffive production... | |
 | 1786 - 670 pages
...llrange, or beautiful, than the eye ever law, and is ftill fenlible of fome defeft in what it has feen; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in it's own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 376 pages
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where be describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen; on this account, it is the part of .1 poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...a.poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality ; and by adding greater beauties than are put together in Nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances •which she makes from one... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 342 pages
...poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances which she makes from one... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 322 pages
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour...notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 398 pages
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances which she makes from one... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
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