...exercise the understanding, not to move the affections. — In his remarks on Milton, he defines Poetry, " the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help oi reason." Epic Poetry, he says, " undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing...

...mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...

...criticism, respecting the comparative merits of the Poets, and allow, that *' the first praise of genius is due to the writer of " an Epic Poem ; as it requires...are singly sufficient for " other compositions'." 0 Some writers give still greater latitude to the variety of Epic Poetry. And indeed, if what should,...

...criticism, respecting the comparative merits of the Poets, and allow, that " the first praise of genius is due to the writer of " an Epic Poem ; as it requires...the powers which are singly sufficient for " other compositions0." n Some writers give still greater latitude to the variety of Epic Poetry. And indeed,...

...criticism, respecting the comparative merits of the poets, and allow, that " the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem ; as it requires...all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compotions"." k A:a. VI ! 1 . 557, Sec. — particular!;, from T. Kt to 584. I do Rot know »nj wher*...

...the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of ah1 the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions....Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, bycalling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths...

...us satisfy ourselves with the account given of it by this great writer. " Poetry," heobserves,t "* is the art of uniting pleasure with truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason." If, by this statement, he intended to define the exalted art of which he speaks, some critical objections...

...mind. By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is tlue to the writer of an epick poem, as it requires an assemblage of all the powers...truth, by calling imagination to the help of reason. Epick poetry undertakes to teach the most important truths, by the most pleasing precepts, and therefore...

...•which he writes.' ' By the general consent of critics,' says Johnson, ' the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epic poem, as it requires an assemhlage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions. Poetry is the art...

...wir Fardd. Fel у dywed Johnson, — " By the general consent of critics, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an Epic Poem, as it requires...which are singly sufficient for other compositions." Y mae cynllun Eben Fardd yn y Bryddest hon, yn dangos crebwyll ardderchog ; buasai yn ddifyrwch mawr...