 The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet, or Wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and...  The Poetical Works of John Dryden., Esq: Containing Original Poems, Tales ... - الصفحة 75بواسطة John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | John Dryden - 1773 - عدد الصفحات: 260
...leave to ufe a febool diftinetion) is no other than the faeulty of imagination in the writer, whieh like a nimble fpaniel, beats over and ranges through...the quarry it hunted after ; or, without metaphor, whieh fearehes over all the memory for the fpeeies or ideas of thofe things whieh it defigns to reprefent.... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the -writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 338
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-diftinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...for the fpecies or ideas of thofe things which it defigr.s to reprefent. Wit written is that which is well defined, the happy refult of thought, or product... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-diftinftion) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted after i or, without metaphor, which fearches over all the memory for the fpecies or ideas of thofe things... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 364
...wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give roe leave to ufe a ichool-diftinftion) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...field of memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted afteri or, without metaphor, which fearches over all the memory for the fpecies or ideas of thofe things... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 806
...you will give me leave to ufe a Ichool-i'.iilinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination iu the writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beats over...quarry it hunted after : or, without metaphor, which (carches over all the memory for the fpecics or ideas of thofe things which it dcugiis to reprcfcnt.... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - عدد الصفحات: 842
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a (chool-diftinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beau over and ranges through the field of memory, till it fpriogs the quarry it hunted after : or,... | |
 | 1797 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...of wit ; and wit in poetry, or wit writing (if you will give me leave to ufo a fchool-diftinftion) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...beats over and ranges through the field of memory, ti ! ! it fprings the quarry it hunted after ; or, without a metaphor, which fearches over all the... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...of wit ; and \vit in poetry, or wi: writing (i! you will give me leave to ufe л fchool-diíHncV.on) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpanicl, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted after... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - عدد الصفحات: 658
...of wit; and wit in the poet, or wit writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a Ichool-diflinflion) nwg floo.l. No dreadful dreams awak'd him with affright;...grain : And cover'd H ˇ ;!> it which is well defined, the happy refult of thought, or product of imagination. But to proceed... | |
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