 | John Dryden - 1874 - 388 pages
...wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a 30 school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer; which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 376 pages
...wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a 30 school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer ; which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1874 - 740 pages
...of wit ; and wit in the poet, or witwriting (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 ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | John Dryden - 1878 - 368 pages
...wit; and wit in the poet, or wit-writing (if you will give me leave to use a 30 school-distinction), is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer; which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after:... | |
 | John Ogilvie - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1883 - 834 pages
...and audible is that the visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible doth. Bacon. Wit ... is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer which searches over all the memory for the species or ideas of tho signs to represent. : things which it... | |
 | John Ogilvie - 1883 - 830 pages
...and audible is that the visible doth not mingle in the medium, but the audible doth. Bacon, "Wit ... is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer which searches over all the memory for the tftcies or ideas of those things which it designs to represent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 456 pages
...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 ranges through the field of memory 'till it springs the quarry it hunted after... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 478 pages
...^Jfc,r-^< 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 * We need not here suppose that Dryden speaks particularly of those to whom... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1884 - 480 pages
...wit ; J 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 * We need not here suppose that Dryden speaks particularly of those to whom... | |
 | John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 420 pages
...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 25 spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted... | |
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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... 
