 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...of wit; and wit in poetry, 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 Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...of wit; and wit in poetry, 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 - 1832 - 342 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 - 1837 - 482 pages
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to uie 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 - 1837 - 478 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 nimhle spaniel, heats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...of wit ; and wit in poetry, 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 - 1859 - 480 pages
...of wit ^ and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (ifyou will give me leave to use a school-distinction) is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, likn a nimhle spaniel, heats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it sprmgs the quarry... | |
 | John Dryden - 1866 - 348 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 - 1871 - 380 pages
...wit; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a 30 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 - 1871 - 368 pages
...wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a 30 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:... | |
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The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, 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... 
