 | Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...the poetic mind (in contrast to the notions of the Romantics) : wit in the Poet, or wit writing ... 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... | |
 | Henk de Wild - Brief - 1986 - 340 pages
...The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit, and wit in the poet, or wit writing (...) 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;... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...essay, the preface to his historical poem Annus Mirabilis (1667): 'Wit in the poet, or Wit-Writing ... is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which like a humble spaniel beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted... | |
 | Jean I. Marsden - Drama - 1995 - 214 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 - English literature - 2003 - 1024 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;... | |
 | 278 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 - 312 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:... | |
 | John Dryden - Poetry - 2002 - 612 pages
...in the poet, or wit writing (if you will give me leave to use a school distinction), is no other 130 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... 
