| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 páginas
...with the design of shewing in what way the early state of society is favorable to poetical excellence, says, " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of...acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty... | |
| 1833 - 360 páginas
...THE writer of an article in the Edinburgh Review, * to which we would refer our readers, observes, " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion ou the eye of the body ; and as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose... | |
| 1835 - 932 páginas
...rare among those who parlicipatc most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...the design of showing in what way the early state of society is favourable to poetical excellence, says :— " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye...acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty... | |
| Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...the design of showing in what way the early state of society is favourable to poetical excellence, says : — " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye...acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty... | |
| 1839 - 394 páginas
...one of the ablest exponents of this unfavourable view of the effects of civilization on the arts, " produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 páginas
...Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a . * See the Dialogue between Socrates and lo. magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 páginas
...rare among those who participate most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a * See the Dialogue between Socrates and lo. magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the body.... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 390 páginas
...rare among those who participate most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
| 1849 - 606 páginas
...rare among those who participate most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind,...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely in a dark age.... | |
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