 | British essayists - 1803 - 300 sider
...without affectation or distortion, and as it should seem without even an effort of art : In the Labcoon we have a complicated plot ; we unravel a maze of...so that I cannot verify what I have advanced by any itronger instance than his. I should think there does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 sider
...which is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike. If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 sider
...nature iu the ambition of surpassing her. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Ad. dison's definition, which I before observed applies only to...there does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths ia imitation as Virgil; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1807 - 424 sider
...nature in the ambition of surpassing her. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Ad. dison's definition, which I before observed applies only to...any stronger instance than his. I should think there docs not i_xist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his pastoral... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 362 sider
...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the Imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | 1823 - 380 sider
...figures ; but in the former we see beautiful simplicity, the fairest form in nature, selected by a fine taste, and imitated without affectation or distortion,...does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn from... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 754 sider
...figures ; but in the former we see beautiful simplicity, the fairest . form in nature, selected by a fine taste, and imitated without affectation or distortion,...by any stronger instance than his. I should think thorp does not exist a poet, who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil ; for to pass over his... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 370 sider
...nature, he will produce beauty; if to what is lofty, bold, and tremendous, he will strike out sublimity. Virgil possessed a fine taste according to Mr. Addison's...does not exist a poet who has gone such lengths in imitation as Virgil; for to pass over his pastoral and bucolic poems, which are evidently drawn from... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 682 sider
...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 322 sider
...is used on this occasion, I think I may define it to be ' that faculty of the soul, which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure, and the imperfections with dislike.' If a man would know whether he is possessed of this faculty, I would have him read over the celebrated... | |
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I may define it to be that faculty of the soul which discerns the beauties of an author with pleasure and the imperfections with dislike. 
