 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - Liczba stron: 346
...name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented...operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to he poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries, that they fall... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 496
...their right to the name of poets, for they did not imitate anything ; they neither copied nature from life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Their thoughts are often new, but seldom natural ; they are not obvious, but neither are they just... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1868 - Liczba stron: 240
...name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." So it was that, even in Pope's time, Cowley had ceased to be read as a poet. Who now reads Cowley ?... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - Liczba stron: 474
...the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." Lave amply deserved the reputation he has acquired as a philosophical critic. The writers here referred... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - Liczba stron: 694
...name of poets, for they cannot be said to have im- 20 itated anything: they neither copied nature from life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the^ operations of intellect. 5. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to S, g. the metaphysical poets. Besides Cowley,... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1881 - Liczba stron: 398
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature for life, neither painted...Donne in wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry.1 ' If wit be well described by Pope,3 as being " that which has been often thought, but was... | |
 | William Swinton - 1882 - Liczba stron: 686
...statement? — Note the felicitous use of three verbs nearly synonymous with "represented." 1 1 86 JOHNSON. be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his contemporaries.-;...wit, but maintains that they surpass him in poetry. 6. If wit be well described by Pope as being " that which has been often thought, but was never before... | |
 | Henry James Nicoll - 1886 - Liczba stron: 478
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature for life; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." Of the "metaphysical" school, John Donne [1573-1631] may be said to have been the founder. He was the... | |
 | William Swinton - 1886 - Liczba stron: 690
...of poets, for they cannot be said to have im- » itated anything : they neither copied nature from life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. 5. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to i,, 9. the metaphysical poeti. Besides... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford - 1894 - Liczba stron: 448
...the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything: they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented...poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himeelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit ; but maintains that they surpass... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry' T£Xvrl (ii(iT)TixT) an imitative art, these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature... 
