...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...

...or versified diction. An able Reviewer* has described it to be the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination...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...

...other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination,...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...

...illusion on the imagination, the art 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 felicity of their diction, and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they...

...other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination,...which they convey of the art in which he excelled : "The poert eye, in a fiue frenzy rolling Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven ;...

...other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination,...which they convey of the art in which he excelled : " The poets eye, in a fine frenzy rolling DotH glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven...

...and those who read may rave. " The greatest of poets," he says, " has described it in lines which are valuable on account of the just notion which they...excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and...

...and those who read may rave. " The greatest of poets," he says, " has described it in lines which are valuable on account of the just notion which they...which he excelled : " As imagination bodies forth The form§ of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation...

...those who read may rave. " The greatest of poets," he says, " has described it in lint's which are valuable on account of the just notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled: "As imnpiMtlon bodies forth The forms of tbimrs unknown, the poi-t'ti |K'n Turns them to shape, nnd gives...

...other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination...diction, and still more valuable on account of the iust notion which they convey of the art in which he excelled. " Ai imagination bodici forth The forms...