...praise. By poetry we mean, Ihe art of employing words in such a manner as lo produce an illusion on llie imagination, — the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets lias described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour...

...effort of the human mind ; it is the art of painting by words the passions and emotions of the soul in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination by words what the painter does by means of colours. It is the eloquence and overflowings of a mind...

...of fiction, whether penned in prosaic or versified diction. An able Reviewer* has described it to be the art of employing words in such a manner as to...means of words, what the painter does by means of colour. Dr. Johnson has defined it to be " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination...

...verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words...it, in lines universally admired for the vigor and felicity of their diction, and still more valuable on account of the just notion which they convey...

...verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions, which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words...means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...

...verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions, which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words...means of words, what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...

...verse. Our definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest praise. By poetry we mean, the art of employing words...by means of words what the painter does by means of colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...

...verse. Onr definition excludes many metrical compositions which, on other grounds, deserve the highest (+ colours. Thus the greatest of poets has described it, in lines universally admired for the vigour and...

...passions throw over it, but in designs, according to her own conception. Poetry, as Macauley has it, is the art of doing by means of words what the painter does by means of colors. It does more ; it infinitely transcends painting : " painting gives the object itself; poetry, what...

...Dante de vulgari eloquio 2. 4: poesis fictio rhetorica in musicaque positn Mac. Ess. I. 7: poetry, the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination (cf. 327. J. Lives L 10t 180. Si. 495). Blair Rhetoric III. 85 erklärt Poetry als language of passion...