 | John Dryden - 1760 - 448 páginas
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, of wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-diftinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, 'till it fprings the quarry it hunted after... | |
 | John Dryden - 1767 - 318 páginas
...of wit; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-diftin&ion) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, 'till it fprings the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | John Bell - 1777 - 644 páginas
...elocution. 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)...quarry it hunted after; or, without metaphor, which 1carche1 over all the memosy for the species or ideas of those things which ft designs to represent.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - 350 páginas
...wit ;. and Wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-cliftinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted after... | |
 | Robert Anderson - 1795 - 842 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1797 - 522 páginas
...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 writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, ti ! ! it fprings the quarry it hunted... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 páginas
...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 - 658 páginas
...of wit; and wit in the poet, or wit writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a Ichool-diflinflion) fpaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 658 páginas
...of wit; and wit in the poet, or wit- writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-difHnction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble fpaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it fprings the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...that I could not read them. AVw/M. 4. Representation to the mind. Wit in the poet, or \vit-\vriting, is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those tmugs which it designs to represent.... | |
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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... 
