 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...  Poetical Works - Page 40by John Dryden - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...to amuse us with the thought of what shall be, even when we shall be no more. — Montaigne. CLXXVIL The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in poetry, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school distinction,) is no other than the... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...amuse it with the thought of what shall be, even when we shal. be no more. — Montaigne. CLXXVII. The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in poetry, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school distinction, ) is no other than... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 482 pages
...from this digression to a farther account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much...elocution. The composition of all poems is, or ought to bo, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to uie a school-distinction)... | |
 | John Dryden - 1837 - 478 pages
...account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as l have endeavoured to adorn it with nohle thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with...elocution. The composition of all poems is, or ought tohe, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction)... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem schief, It is written in quatrains, or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1840 - 522 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution.' It is written in quatrains, or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 468 pages
...attention of the public. — WALTER SCOTT: Life of l)r\jdcn, p. 71. have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." It is written in quatrains, or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1854 - 346 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." It is written in quatrains, or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the... | |
 | John Dryden - 1855 - 350 pages
...from this digression to a further account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much...be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or witwriting (if yon will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in... | |
 | John Dryden - 1856 - 592 pages
...poem ; I muat crave leave to tell you that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, ao much more to express those thoughts with elocution....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... | |
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