 | William Temple - Learning and scholarship - 1909 - 108 pages
...their kinds as to have exceeded all Comparison, to have even extinguished Emulation, and in a Manner confined true Poetry not only to their two Languages, but to their very Persons. And I am apt to believe so much of the true Genius of Poetry in 1 5 general, and of its Elevation in... | |
 | William Temple - Learning and scholarship - 1909 - 108 pages
...their kinds as to have exceeded all Comparison, to have even extinguished Emulation, and in a Manner confined true Poetry not only to their two Languages, but to their very Persons. And I am apt to believe so much of the true Genius of Poetry in 15 general, and of its Elevation in... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1909 - 392 pages
...their kinds as to have exceeded all Comparison, to have even extinguished Emulation, and in a Manner confined true Poetry not only to their two Languages, but to their very Persons. And I am apt to believe so much of the true Gemus of Poetry in 1 5 general, and of its Elevation in... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - Criticism - 1909 - 678 pages
...their kinds as to have exceeded all Comparison, to have even extinguished Emulation, and in a Manner confined true Poetry not only to their two Languages, but to their very Persons. And I am apt to believe so much of the true Genius of Poetry in 15 general, and of its Elevation in... | |
 | William Temple - Learning and scholarship - 1909 - 102 pages
...their kinds as to have exceeded all Comparison, to have even extinguished Emulation, and in a Manner confined true Poetry not only to their two Languages, but to their very Persons. And I am apt to believe so much of the true Genius of Poetry in 1 5 general, and of its Elevation in... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of - 1920 - 246 pages
...their kinds as to have exceeded all comparisons, to have even extinguished emulation, and in a manner confined true Poetry not only to their two languages, but to their very persons.10 As to recent laws of verse : The modern French wits (or Pretenders) have been very severe... | |
 | Literary Criticism - 302 pages
...their kinds, as to have exceeded all comparison, to have even extinguished emulation, and in a manner confined true poetry, not only to their two languages, but to their very persons."3 Since there was not much point in legislating, Temple is satisfied with a few generalizations... | |
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... fiction. In short, these two immortal poets must be allowed to have so much excelled in their kinds, as to have exceeded all comparison, to have even extinguished emulation, and in a manner confined true poetry, not only to their two languages, but... 
