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" Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. "
An Essay on the Influence of Poetry on the Mind - Page 12
by J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 86 pages
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The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precept, and therefore...
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The Literary Magazine, and American Register, Volume 2

Charles Brockden Brown - 1804 - 740 pages
...These definitions, it iscvident, make no difference between poetry and Johnson tells us that poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. The true poet enables you to feel what you remember to have felt before, and to feel it with a great...
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The works of the poets of Great Britain and Ireland. With prefaces ..., Volume 1

Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poeuy is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry under-' takes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasmg precepts, ani therefore...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...
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The Monthly repository (and review)., Volume 11

1816 - 828 pages
...satisfy ourselves with the account given of it by this great writer. " Poetry," he observes, t " is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason." If, by this statement, he intended to define the exalted art of which he speaks, ноте critical...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic poeuy undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 9

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most importanttruthsby the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which arc singly suffici. '.'it for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epic poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...
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Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Literature

Thomas Green - 1810 - 262 pages
...exercise the understanding, not to move the affections. — In his remarks on Milton, he defines Poetry, " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help oi reason." Epic Poetry, he says, " undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...requires an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...
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