 | Eric Sutherland Robertson - 1883 - 438 pages
...to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. " Johnson gets but a little way into the question : " Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason." On such a theory Newton's notion of gravitation would have been poetry while it remained an unproved... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 pages
...3. Poetry is evidently a contagions complaint. 4181 Wash'm9ton Irvin9 : Tales of a Traveller. 1824. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. 4182 Johnson : Lives of the Poets. Milton. A poem is not alone any work or composition of the poet's... | |
 | 1889 - 706 pages
...good, admirable, of it. Burly Dr. Johnson roars from his dictator's chair, " Poetry is the art oí uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason " ; Lowell speaks from his quiet New England corner, "To open vistas for the imagination through the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1892 - 180 pages
...mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...compositions. ^Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure i •with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. 3 Epick poetry undertakes to teach the... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...souls. Lowell. Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows ! and of lending existence to nothing. Burke. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. \ Johnson. Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge : it is the impassioned expression... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1893 - 186 pages
...it requires an assemblage of all the powers whinVi a.rp singly sufficient for other.jcojupositions. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure •with truth, by calling imagination to ~tnirlrelp~ of -reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1894 - 196 pages
...mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...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... | |
 | Jeremiah Wesley Bray - 1898 - 360 pages
...this use of the term "truth" from the preceding use. Natural, just, and true. RYMER, 2d Ft., p. 79. Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. 1781. S. JOHNSON, VII., p. 125. I cannot agree that this exactness of detail produces heaviness ; on... | |
 | Charles Mills Gayley, Fred Newton Scott - 1899 - 612 pages
...are valuable, because they are the utterances of a great and original man." According to Johnson, " Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason " ; an excellent specimen of the eighteenth-century theory of poetry. An edition of Selections from... | |
 | Manchester Public Libraries (Manchester, England), William Robert Credland - 1899 - 364 pages
...pursuing the subject to which they decided to devote themselves, let them not forget to read some poetry, the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason. Here might our lads and lasses drink of the well of English undefiled, for in poetry our people had... | |
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, . by calling imagination to the help of reason. 
