| Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 582 páginas
...inquired, " If Pope BE NOT A POET, Avhere is POETRY to be found ?" Reader, mark the logical consequence. " To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show...If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ?"' Now, suppose Dr., Warton had saidr " the song of the lark is not the most excellent ; for, melodious... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1821 - 572 páginas
..." If Pope BE NOT A POET, •where is POETRY to be found :" Reader, mark the logical consequence. " To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definen." " If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found r" Now, suppose l)r. Warton had said,... | |
| James Boswell - 1821 - 412 páginas
...the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer; though a definition... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 582 páginas
...the most excellent one of the art." This is WARTON'S opinion, and lhis is mine; and this opinion 1 have supported in the Principles of Poetry; and this...?" He might as well have said, " If the LARK be not n singing bird, where is a singing bird to be found f" Such is the Doctor's logic ! " Aye ! but such... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 308 páginas
...was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found f To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the dcfiner, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon... | |
| James Boswell - 1822 - 506 páginas
...the question that has once been asked, Whether Pope was a poet ? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only shew the narrowness of the definer ; though a definition... | |
| James Boswell - 1823 - 440 páginas
...was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer; though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 682 páginas
...was a poet? otherwise than by asking in return, If Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found? To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which will exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 750 páginas
...was a poet ' otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 520 páginas
...was a poet { otherwise than by asking in return, if Pope be not a poet, where is poetry to be found ? To circumscribe poetry by a definition, will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the... | |
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