 | William Hazlitt - 1903 - 586 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.' The whole of the account is well worth reading : it was a subject for which Dr. Johnson's powers both... | |
 | Leslie Cope Cornford - 1903 - 384 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... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 стор.
...great wrong, lose their right to the name of poets; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything; 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1911 - 664 стор.
...wrong, lose their right to the name of poets ; for they cannot be said to have imitated anything : 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 - 1913 - 220 стор.
...endeavour : but unluckily resolving to shew it in rhyme, instead of writing poetry they only wrote verses Their thoughts are often new but seldom natural ;...are they just ; and the reader, far from wondering how he missed them, wonders more frequently by what perverseness of ingenuity they were ever found... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 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... | |
 | Percy Hazen Houston - 1923 - 346 стор.
...lose their right to the name of poets, for they cannot be said to have imitated anything; . . . they neither painted the forms of matter nor represented the operations of intellect." * His interpretation of the so-called Katharsis,the purgation of the passions through pity and fear,... | |
 | 1925 - 610 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. Tht/se however who deny them to be poets allow them to be wits. . . . IfWit be well described by Pope... | |
 | René Wellek - 1981 - 378 стор.
...nature," or really "unnatural," the opposite of "natural" in the neoclassical sense of the universal. "They neither copied nature nor life; neither painted...matter nor represented the operations of intellect." 103 Their imagery or "wit" is well described by Johnson as discordia concors: "a combination of dissimilar... | |
 | Edward Dahlberg - 1964 - 177 стор.
...deal upon the metaphysical poets, and Tate offers us another excerpt from the Lives: Johnson declares "they neither copied nature nor life; neither painted...matter nor represented the operations of intellect." If these perverse bards refused to imitate nature or life, and declined to recognize the existence... | |
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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... 
