 We will allow a poet to express his meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with a certain degree of obscurity, as it is one source of the sublime. But when, in plain prose, we gravely talk of courting the Muse in shady bowers; waiting...  The Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds - Seite 101von Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 Seiten
...avowed how much he had learnt from Johnson (ante, p. 284), says much the same in his Seventh Discourse: 'But when, in plain prose, we gravely talk of courting...bowers ; waiting the call and inspiration of Genius ... of attending to times and seasons when the imagination shoots with the greatest vigour, whether... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 Seiten
...how much he had learnt from Johnson (ante, p. 284), says much the same in his Seventh Discourse : ' But when, in plain prose, we gravely talk of courting the Muse in shady Dowers ; waiting the call and inspiration of Genius ... of attending to times and seasons when the... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1801 - 440 Seiten
...when viewed indistinctly as through a mist. f ' We will allow a poet to express his meanVOL. i. o I ing, when his meaning is not well known to himself,...where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the greatest success ; of attending to times and seasons when the imagination shoots with the greatest... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1809 - 430 Seiten
...appear when viewed indistinctly as through a mist. -. We will allow a poet to express his meanVOL. I. O ing, when his meaning is not well known to himself,...bowers; waiting the call and inspiration of Genius, rinding out where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the'greatest success ; of attending... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1816 - 644 Seiten
..." We will allow a poet to express his meaning, '' when his meaning is not well known to himselfi " with a certain degree of obscurity, as it is one "...sublime. But when, in plain prose, " we gravely talk of attending to times and seasons " when the imagination shoots with the greatest " vigour ; whether at... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds, Edmond Malone - 1819 - 614 Seiten
...that false magnitude with which objects appear when viewed indistinctly as through a mist. meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with...where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the greatest success; of attending to times and seasons when the imagination shoots with the greatest... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1819 - 610 Seiten
...when viewed indistinctly as through a mist. We will allow a poet to express his voi« i. o meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with...where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the greatest success; of attending to times and seasons when the imagination shoots with the greatest... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1823 - 424 Seiten
...AS MEN ADVANCE IN LIFE? " WE will allow a poet," says Sir Joshua Reynolds, " to express his meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with...sublime. But when, in plain prose, we gravely talk of attending to times and seasons, when the imagination shoots with the greatest vigour, whether .at the... | |
 | sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 Seiten
...objects appear when viewed indistinctly as through a mist. We will allow a poet to express his meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with...where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the greatest success ; of attending to times and seasons when the imagination shoots with the greatest... | |
 | Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1824 - 332 Seiten
...appear when viewed indistinctly as through a mist. - ' We will allow a poet to express his meaning, when his meaning is not well known to himself, with...bowers; waiting the call and inspiration of Genius, rinding out where he inhabits, and where he is to be invoked with the greatest success ; of attending... | |
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