 | 1796 - عدد الصفحات: 690
...nor life ; neither painted the forms of natter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confefles of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they* fall below Donne in wit, bub maintains that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 358
...nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confeffes of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, , but maintains that... | |
 | 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...intellect " Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be witt. Dryden confefles of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they furpafs him in poetry. ' If Wit be well defcribed by Pope, as being " that which has been often thought,... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...modulation was fo imperfeft, that they were only found to be verfes by counting the fyllables. ' Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confeffes of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 726
...nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confeffes of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...nor life; neither painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect ' Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confefles of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...intellect:. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confefles of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that they furpafs him in poetry. If Wit be well defcribed by Pope, as being, ** that which has been often thought,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1781 - عدد الصفحات: 498
...nor life j neither painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confefles of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1779 - عدد الصفحات: 336
...nor life; neither, painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations «f Intelfed*. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits.. Drydea confefles. of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne "in 'wit, but maintains... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - عدد الصفحات: 494
...nor life ; neither painted the forms of matter, nor reprefented the operations of intellect. Thofe however who deny them to be poets, allow them to be wits. Dryden confeffes of himfelf and his contemporaries, that they fall below Donne in wit, but maintains that... | |
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If the father of criticism has rightly denominated poetry' T£Xvrl (ii(iT)TixT) 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... 
