 To circumscribe poetry by a definition will only show the narrowness of the definer, though a definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time and back upon the past; let us...  The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review - Էջ 464խմբագրել է - 1806Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | David Watson Rannie - 1907 - 422 էջ
...held up as a genuine and great poet " Let us look round upon the present time," cried the Doctor, " and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version [of Homer] the name of poet must have been allowed him." Wordsworth's view of Pope was very... | |
 | James Boswell - 1910 - 548 էջ
...easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let [us] enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, " Sir, a thousand Cor. et Ad. — Line 28: For " apotheosis... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 752 էջ
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 744 էջ
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - 1911 - 754 էջ
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him ; if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - 1913 - 484 էջ
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us inquire to whom the...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." 1 These sentences, it will be noted, have the ring of apology. Why ? Because the pretensions of Pope... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1913 - 220 էջ
...poet's particular case of the rule before laid down that success is its own only test. ' Let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.'8 It has been already pointed out that the same test may be applied to Johnson himself, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1916 - 370 էջ
...definition which shall exclude Pope will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past; let us inquire to whom the...the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed." I remember once to have heard Johnson say, "Sir, A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear... | |
 | Lilian Beeson Brownfield - 1904 - 160 էջ
...definition, which shall exclude Pope, will not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon .the past ; let us inquire to whom the...stated, and the pretensions of Pope will be no more disputed.2 BURKE'S CRITICISM. The criticism of Edmund Burke is limited -to one investigation, A 'Philosophical... | |
 | John Ker Spittal - 1923 - 436 էջ
...not easily be made. Let us look round upon the present time, and back upon the past ; let us enquire to whom the voice of mankind has decreed the wreath...no more disputed. Had he given the world only his version, the name of poet must have been allowed him : if the writer of the Iliad were to class his... | |
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