 | Horace - Poetry - 1766 - 288 pages
...attention through it. .I*. •"«. i . .. . . IL The fum of the foregoing article is this. The objects of imitation, like the materials of human knowledge,...to all men. And it is in the operations of the mind ppon them, that the glory of poetry, as of 74 A DISCOURSE ON fcience, confifts. Here the genius of... | |
 | English drama - 1785 - 538 pages
...the following remark, among many others, which is applicable to the prefent occafion : " The objects of imitation, " like the materials of human knowledge, " are a common ftock which experience " fur" furnimes to all men ; and it is in the ope" rations of the mind upon them that the •" glory... | |
 | Richard Hurd - Theology, Doctrinal - 1811 - 408 pages
...of imitation, like the materials of human knowledge, are a common stock, which experience furnishes to all men. And it is in the operations of the mind upon them, that the glory of poetry, as of science, consists. Here the genius of the poet hath room to shew itself; and from hence alone is the... | |
 | Hugo Bieber - 1911 - 116 pages
...of Imitation, like the materials of human Knowledge are a common stock, which experience furnislies to all men. And it is in the operations of the mind upon them, t hat the glory of poetry, as of sdence consists"*). Niemals aber ist sie lebendiger illustriert worden... | |
 | Modern Language Association of America - Philology, Modern - 1921 - 864 pages
...of imitation, like the materials of human knowledge, are a common stock, which experience furnishes to all men. And it is in the operations of the mind upon them, that the glory of poetry, as of science consists." This seems like an idealistic, and almost Shelleyan, view of poetry, until one notes,... | |
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The objects of imitation, like the materials of human knowledge, are a common stock, which experience furnishes to all men. And it is in the operations of the mind upon them, that the glory of poetry, as of science, consists. 