 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...  Poetical Works - Page 40by John Dryden - 1808Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Johnson - 1879 - 510 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution.' It is written in quatrains, or heroic stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from the... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 654 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavored to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." CRITICISMS. The "Annus Mirabilis" may indeed be regarded as one of Dryden's most elaborate pieces,... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 728 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavored to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." CRITICISMS. The "Annus Mirabilis" may indeed be regarded as one of Dryden's most elaborate pieces,... | |
 | Ability - 1886 - 218 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other. As I have endeavored to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." In the preface to the " Second Miscellany," Dryden says, " I have taken some pains to make it my masterpiece... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 478 pages
...from this digression to a farther account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much...of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit;| and wit fu*- •/-«--» A << ^Jfc,r-^< in the poet, or wit- writing, (if you will give me « leave to use... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 480 pages
...from this digression to a farther account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much...composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; J and wit in the poet, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction,) is... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1884 - 478 pages
...from this digression to a farther account of my poem ; I must crave leave to tell you, that as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much...composition of ' all poems is, or ought to be, of wit;t and wit in the poet, or wit-writing, (if you will give me leave to use a school-distinction,)... | |
 | John Dryden, William Dougal Christie - 1893 - 780 pages
...from this digression to a farther account of my poem : I must crave Teave~lo tell you, that, as I have endeavoured to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts witli elocution. The composition of all poems is or ought to be of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1895 - 234 pages
...them is much better than what I have performed on any other: As I have endeavoured to adorn my poem with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." It is written in quatrains, or heroick stanzas of four lines ; a measure which he had learned from... | |
 | National Speech Arts Association - 1896 - 736 pages
...Eloquence in style or delivery; effective utterance or expression. " As I have endeavored," says Dryden, " to adorn it with noble thoughts, so much more to express those thoughts with elocution." The third definition is that given first by Webster anddenominated "rare," — " Speech ; the power or... | |
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