 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is a poet's... | |
 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy : instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is a poet's... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - 1800 - 634 pages
...acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose: for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy: v instruction can be admitted but in the second place; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...knowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is a poet's... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...adds trinmphantly, " that is enough for me ; for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it canse delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...knowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is a poet's... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...adds triumphantly, " that is enough for me ; for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is a poet's... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...adds triumphantly, " that is enough for me ; for if all the enemies of verso will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is a poet's... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...he adds triumphantly, "that is enough for me; for if all the enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am...end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It is true, that to imitate well is the... | |
 | American essays - 1893 - 958 pages
..."delightful teaching." Dry den was something of a heretic when he ventured to say, "I am satisfied if " verse "cause delight; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy." It may seem strange that the view of poetry as primarily didactic, a view which might be deemed prosaic,... | |
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I am satisfied, if it cause delight: for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy: instruction can be admitted but in the second place; for poesy only instructs as it delights. 
