 | John Dryden - 1800 - 624 pages
...of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied, if it cause delight : for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Edmond Malone - English prose literature - 1800 - 591 pages
...of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied, if it cause delight : for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - English literature - 1808 - 486 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it canse delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Dryden, Walter Scott - 1821 - 488 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | Scotland - 1845 - 842 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | England - 1845 - 816 pages
...enemies of verso will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | John Wilson - Criticism - 1846 - 360 pages
...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight; for delight is the chief, if not the only end of poesy ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. It... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1868 - 690 pages
...any kind of verse in real life. But the argument for rhyme is of another kind. " I am satisfied if it cause delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy [he should have said means} ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
 | JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL. A.M. - 1870 - 604 pages
...any kind of verse in real life. But the argument for rhyme is of another kind. " I am satisfied if it cause delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy [he should have said means]; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
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I am satisfied if it cause delight. For delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy. Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as it delights. 
