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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 colours. "
An Essay on the Influence of Poetry on the Mind - Page 12
by J. Hemming Webb - 1839 - 86 pages
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Selections Fron the Edinburgh Review, Comprising the Best ..., Volumes 1-2

1835 - 932 pages
...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 what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets lias described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour...
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The New Monthly Belle Assemblée, Volume 17

448 pages
...effort of the human mind ; it is the art of painting by words the passions and emotions of the soul in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination by words what the painter does by means of colours. It is the eloquence and overflowings of a mind...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 pages
...many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to...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...
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An Essay on the Character of the Welsh as a Nation, in the Present Age

William Jones - 1841 - 186 pages
...many metrical compositions, which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to...means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...
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An Essay on the Character of the Welsh as a Nation, in the Present Age

William Jones - 1841 - 194 pages
...many metrical compositions, which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to...means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pages
...many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words in such a manner as to...by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...
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Introduction to American Literature: Or, The Origin and Development of the ...

Eliphalet L. Rice - 1846 - 432 pages
...passions throw over it, but in designs, according to her own conception. Poetry, as Macauley has it, is the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. It does more ; it infinitely transcends painting : " painting gives the object itself; poetry,...
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Wissenschaftliche Grammatik der englischen Sprache von E. Fiedler (C. Sachs).

Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4: poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque positn Mac. Ess. I. 7: poetry, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination (cf. 327. J. Lives L 10t 180. Si. 495). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passion...
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The Modern British Essayists: Macaulay, T.B. Essays

1852 - 780 pages
...many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, atific Vision, or woke screaming from dreams of everlasting...with the sceptre of ilie millennial year. Like Fleetw colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...
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Critical and Historical Essays: Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 1

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 658 pages
...excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry wo mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to...by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...
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