 ... because the imagination can fancy to itself things more great, strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account, it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in our own...  The Spectator - Seite 901739Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1767 - 334 Seiten
...ftrange, or beautiful, than the eye everfaw, and is ftill fenfible of fome defect in what it has feen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour...fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the flow advances which fhe makes from one feafon to another, or to obferve her conduct in the fucceffive production... | |
 | 1786 - 670 Seiten
...llrange, or beautiful, than the eye ever law, and is ftill fenlible of fome defeft in what it has feen; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in it's own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
 | 1803 - 376 Seiten
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where be describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
 | 1804 - 412 Seiten
...saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen; on this account, it is the part of .1 poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 Seiten
...a.poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality ; and by adding greater beauties than are put together in Nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances •which she makes from one... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 342 Seiten
...poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances which she makes from one... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 Seiten
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour...notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes... | |
 | 1823 - 398 Seiten
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 Seiten
...poet to humour the imagination in our own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater beauties than are put together in nature, where he describes a fiction. He is not obliged to attend her in the slow advances which she makes from one... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 Seiten
...strange, or beautiful, than the eye ever saw, and is still sensible of some defect in what it has seen ; on this account it is the part of a poet to humour the imagination in its own notions, by mending and perfecting nature where he describes a reality, and by adding greater... | |
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