 There was, therefore, before the time of Dryden no poetical diction, no system of words at once refined from the grossness of domestic use, and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - Seite 395von Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 Seiten
...particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear, on small or on coarse occasions, we...combinations of words, which distinguish poetry from prose, hud been rarely attempted: we had few elegancies or flowers ot speech ; the roses had not yet been... | |
 | Aristotle - 1857 - 532 Seiten
...proposed to convey by them." Philos. of Khet. •vol. ip 185, 186. From those sounds which we hear OH small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive...images ; and words to which we are nearly strangers [terms of art, etc.], whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1858 - 418 Seiten
...particular arts. Words too iiimiliur n or too remote, 1.7* defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we. hear on small or on coarse occasions, we...draw that attention on themselves which they should trapsmit to things. Those happy combinations of words which distinguished poetry from prose had bee... | |
 | 1858 - 866 Seiten
...particular arts. Words too familiar or too remote 140 141 defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we...not easily receive strong impressions or delightful imagos. . . . Those happy combinations which distinguish poetry from prose had been rarely attempted.... | |
 | Clemens Klöpper - 1881 - 508 Seiten
...participation of their power (Burke). A combination of syllables, cyphers, ideas. Before the time of Dryden, those happy combinations of words which distinguish poetry from prose had been rarely attempted (Johnson). Canals and turnpike roads are means of communication. The Euxine Sea is conviently situated... | |
 | 1882 - 866 Seiten
...particular arts. Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we...themselves which they should transmit to things." Wordsworth may be said to have met this statement with a point-blank contradiction. His contention... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 500 Seiten
...domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions " (How about Lear's " Pray you, undo this button " ?) " or delightful images ; and words to which we... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - 1883 - 498 Seiten
...domestic use and free from the harshness of terms appropriated to particular arts. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions " (How about Lear's " Pray you, undo this button " ?) " or delightful images ; and words to which we... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 Seiten
...sight. 72. via. 59. • WORDS too familiar or too remote defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we...on themselves which they should transmit to things. Works, vii. 308. Pointed axioms and acute replies : POINTED axioms and acute replies fly loose about... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 360 Seiten
...viu. 59. • • • WORDS too familiar or too remote defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impres220 sions or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers whenever they occur,... | |
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