 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 466 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 476 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they_ cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither "copied nature nor life ; neither .painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 306 стор.
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing; they neither copied nature nor life, neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 674 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for ' they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they connot be said to have imitated any thin ling : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 504 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing ; they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those, however, who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1826 - 430 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets; fox they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life ; neither painted...matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | Thomas Zouch - 1826 - 146 стор.
...wrote only verse, who cannot be said to have imitated any thing, as they neither copied nature from life, neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operations of intellect. Deficient in the sublime and pathetic, they abounded in hyperbole, and in unnatural thoughts, in violent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 752 стор.
...wrong, lose theii ni'lii to the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : ڑ- Those however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses of himself and his... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1838 - 716 стор.
...wrong, lose theii right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing : they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor represented the operation! of intellect Those however who deny them to be poeti, allow them to be wits. Dryden confesses... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry, " an imitative art," these writers will, without great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated any thing: they neither copied nature nor life; neither... 
