Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Mimesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth; to speak metaphorically, a 255 speaking picture, with this end, to teach and delight. A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ... - Page 202by William Minto - 1881 - 548 pagesFull view - About this book
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 pages
...put in the mouths of great kings and captains, which it is certain they never pronounced. * * * * ' Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation ; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Mtf*n<n?, that is to say, ' a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth:' to speak metaphorically,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 616 pages
...put in the mouths of great kings and captains, which it is certain they never pronounced. * * * * ' Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation ; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word Mi/«!<n?, that is to say, ' a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth :' to speak... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...very description, which no man will deny, shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation. Poesy therefore is an art of imitation ; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word fuptiais, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth, to speak metaphorically.... | |
| 1831 - 368 pages
...very description, which no man will deny, shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation. Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation ; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word /j.lpr)<ji$ ; that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth : to speak... | |
| Philip Sidney - 1860 - 412 pages
...very description, which no man will deny, shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation. Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation ; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word /u'/"?<"r ; that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth : to speak metaphorically,... | |
| William Purton - 1865 - 176 pages
...spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings." Sir Philip Sidney defines poetry, " An art of imitation : that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or...metaphorically, a speaking picture ; with this end, X to teach and delight." As poetry cannot have two ends, this amounts to no more than that its end... | |
| Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...very description, which no man will deny, shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation. Poesy, therefore, is an art of imitation ; for so Aristotle termeth it in the word /u/wto-is, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth : to speak metaphorically,... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...very description, which no man will deny, shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation. Cc the word ,«.« ;;.ri , ; that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth : to speak... | |
| William Minto - 1881 - 596 pages
...to trouble others' quiet, thinking it a small reward for the wasting of their own lives in raveuing, that their posterity should long after say, they had...imitation, for so Aristotle termeth it in his word Miniesis, that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or figuring forth : to speak metaphorically,... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1886 - 230 pages
...advances a definition, which is substantially the same as Aristotle's : "Poesy is an artjjLjmitation ; that is to say, a representing, counterfeiting, or...picture ; with this end to teach and delight." Of poets there have been three general kinds : .first, " they^ that did .imitate the inconceivable excellences... | |
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