 fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have...  Pamphlets in Philology and the Humanities - עמוד 61892תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1835 - 932 דפים
...asctibes to the poet, — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential lo poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent; but these first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 דפים
...the ' fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is...partial and temporary derangement of the intellect. Hencs of all people children are the most imaginative. They abandon themselves without reserve to every... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 464 דפים
...the '-fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet, — a" fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every^ thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 466 דפים
...the ' fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings arc just; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought... | |
 | William Jones - 1841 - 194 דפים
...the ' fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth indeed is essential to poetry ; but it is the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | William Jones - 1841 - 186 דפים
...of the ' fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet, — aj?ne frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth indeed is essential to poetry ; but it is the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Richard H. Horne - 1844 - 342 דפים
...the ' fine frenzy' which he ascribes to the poet — a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness." Ibid. p. 8. Surely the young essayist must have heard of the " nor'-west madness?" But he suffered... | |
 | 1849 - 588 דפים
...condition of poetry, and that no man can rightly enjoy poetry without this unsoundness. He says : " firet suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions... | |
 | 1852 - 780 דפים
...of the " fine frenzy" which he ascribes to the poet — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. falsifying history. But of this high literary" the...1766, the Duke of Newcastle and Lord Hardwicke resigne every thing ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1853 - 658 דפים
...the " fine frenzy " which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
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