| John Dryden - Criticism - 1900 - 412 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... | |
| William Edward Bohn - Criticism - 1907 - 98 pages
...The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or tmt writing, . . . 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.... | |
| Animal behavior - 1892 - 1058 pages
...The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit ; and wit in the poet, or wit loriiing, . . , 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.... | |
| Ernest Rhys - English poetry - 1913 - 410 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... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1920 - 490 pages
...1 Compare Dryden, Letter to Sir Robert Howard, prefixed to Anrius Mirabilis : ' wit in the Poet ... 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... | |
| Robert Lynd - Criticism - 1920 - 256 pages
...memory in poetry : The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet ... 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.... | |
| Herbert Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read - English language - 1928 - 262 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 spaniel, beats over and ranges through the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after... | |
| Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - English literature - 1989 - 490 pages
...poetic imagination : The composition of all poems is, or ought to be, of wit; and wit in the poet ... is no other than the faculty of imagination in the writer, which, like a nimble spaniel, beats over and ranges thro' the field of memory, till it springs the quarry it hunted after.... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pages
...to Annus Mirabilis: "The composition of all poems is or ought to be of wit; and wit in the poet ... 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:... | |
| Margaret Anne Doody, Professor of English Margaret Anne Doody - Literary Criticism - 1985 - 314 pages
...the poetic mind (in contrast to the notions of the Romantics) : wit in the Poet, or wit writing ... 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... | |
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