 | 1902 - 850 páginas
...the poor that Immortality is a sublime conception, but that it is poetry. "By poetry," says Macaulay, "we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination" (Essay on Milton). By saying that Immortality is a poetic conception, any common-sense man would mean... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 174 páginas
...in verse. Our defini25 tion excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean the art of employing...does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets l has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction, and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1903 - 310 páginas
...praise. By poetry we mean the ?rt nf pmplnymg words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on 5 the imagination, the art of doing by means of words...colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described itTTn lines universally admired for the vigour and felicity of their diction, and still more valuable... | |
 | Hialmer Day Gould, Edward Louis Hessenmueller - 1904 - 920 páginas
...powers." Professor Wilson says, " Poetry is the intellect colored by feeling." Alsot Macaulay, "Poetry is the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors." Of course, the kinship of art and poetry is due to their common dependence upon inspiration... | |
 | Harriet Louise Keeler, Mary Elizabeth Adams - 1906 - 296 páginas
...called unsoundness. By poetry we mean not all writing in verse, nor even all good writing in verse. By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such...by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. Stated in the form of a syllogism, the argument appears as follows : — All who yield to illusions... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1906 - 1522 páginas
...aptuque remis. (d) Trace the origin of the following definition of poetry : — g " By poetry we mean the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by uieans of colours." (e) What are the Silver-Lntin equivalents of the following : — 4j Auction-room,... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 772 páginas
...would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain.— Burke. POETRY. POETRY. , and the whole fabric falls. The Sabbath is God's special present to the workingman, colors.— Alacaulay. Truth shines the brighter clad in verse. — Pope. Poetry reveals to us the loveliness... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 páginas
...would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain . — Burke. POETRY. POETRY. hould recall, however remotely, the grandeur of our destiny. — Emerson. Good sense, kind tin- imagination ; the art of doing by means of words, what the painter does by means of colors. —... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1909 - 400 páginas
...principle of variety in uniformity." (Essay on "What is Poetry?" in Imagination and Fancy.) Macaulay : " By poetry we mean the art of employing words in such...by means of words what the painter does by means of colors." (Essay on Milton.) Hazlitt : " Poetry is the natural impression of any object or event, by... | |
 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - 1911 - 276 páginas
...pen at the same time Gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. This is what Macaulay calls "the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination," and the truth that results is, for Macaulay, the "truth of madness."" As though the imagination were... | |
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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. 
