 | William Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to 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." The whole of the account is well worth reading ; it was a... | |
 | William Russell - 1856 - 240 pages
...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...nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Abraham Cowley - 1868 - 240 pages
...without great wrong, lose their 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... | |
 | Casket - 1873 - 912 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything: t starless ; Love is eternal ! God is still God, and His fnith shall not fail represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1876 - 474 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot bo said to have imitated anything ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect." The whole of the account is well worth reading : it was a... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1877 - 464 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to 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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to 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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 288 pages
...great wrong, lose their right to 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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Edward Tompkins McLaughlin - 1893 - 284 pages
...wrong, lose their right to 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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 704 pages
...wrong, lose their right to 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. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, 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 nor life; neither... 
