 The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and...  Dryden. Smyth. Duke. King. Sprat. Halifax - Pàgina 17editat per - 1800Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1797 - 522 pàgines
...of wit ; and wit in poetry, or wit writing (if you will give me leave to ufo a fchool-diftinftion) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...beats over and ranges through the field of memory, ti ! ! it fprings the quarry it hunted after ; or, without a metaphor, which fearches over all the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pàgines
...of wit ; and \vit in poetry, or wi: writing (i! you will give me leave to ufe л fchool-diíHncV.on) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpanicl, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted after... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 550 pàgines
...wit; and wit in the poet, or wit writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school distinction,) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pàgines
...of wit; and wit in the poet, or wit- writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-difHnction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...quarry it hunted after: or, without metaphor; which fcarches over all the memory for the fpecies or ideas of thofe things which it deiigns to reprefent.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 pàgines
...that I could not read them. AVw/M. 4. Representation to the mind. Wit in the poet, or \vit-\vriting, is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those tmugs which it designs to represent.... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pàgines
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pàgines
...of wit ; and wit hi the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 482 pàgines
...wit ; * and wit iii the poet, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, 'till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
 | John Dryden - 1808 - 476 pàgines
...wit ; * and wit in the poet, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave o use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, 'till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 pàgines
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-diftinclion) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...things which it defigns to reprefent. Wit written is that which is well defined, the happy refult of thought, or produft of imagination. But to proceed... | |
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