| John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 550 pages
...wit; and wit in the poet, or wit writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school distinction,) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
| Great Britain - 1804 - 658 pages
...of wit; and wit in the poet, or wit- writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-difHnction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...quarry it hunted after: or, without metaphor; which fcarches over all the memory for the fpecies or ideas of thofe things which it deiigns to reprefent.... | |
| Samuel Johnson - English language - 1805 - 924 pages
...that I could not read them. AVw/M. 4. Representation to the mind. Wit in the poet, or \vit-\vriting, is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of those tmugs which it designs to represent.... | |
| John Dryden - 1808 - 382 pages
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
| John Dryden, Thomas Park - 1808 - 374 pages
...of wit ; and wit hi the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after... | |
| John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 476 pages
...wit ; * and wit in the poet, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave o use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, 'till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
| John Dryden - English literature - 1808 - 482 pages
...wit ; * and wit iii the poet, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, 'till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
| Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1819 - 410 pages
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after;... | |
| George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit writing, if you will give me leave te use a school distinction, is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after... | |
| Literature - 1826 - 450 pages
...of wit ; and wit in poetry, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to ufe a fchool-diftinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the...over and ranges through the field of memory, till it iprings the quarry it hunted after ; or, without a metaphor, which fearches over all the memory for... | |
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