 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1817 - 490 pages
...think them too fanciful or descriptive. But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention...and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring ha9k poetry into... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - English poetry - 1822 - 446 pages
...think them too fanciful or descriptive Uut as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention...and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 326 pages
...think them too fanciful and descriptive. But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention...and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...says : "As be is convinced that the fashion of moralising in verse has been carried too far, and ns he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of the poet, so he will be happy if the following odes may ' be looked upon as nn attempt to bring back... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of the poet, so he will be happy if the following odes may be looked...attempt to bring back poetry into its right channel.'' Warton had taste but not genius, and his Odes, though they are mentioned by Gray, attracted little... | |
 | Mark Pattison - Church and state - 1889 - 460 pages
...think them too fanciful or descriptive. But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention...and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back poetry into... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...same time as those of Collins, he says : "As he is convinced that the fashion of moralising in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of the poet, so he will be happy if the following odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 576 pages
...same time as those of Collins, he says : "As he is convinced that the fashion of moralising in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of the poet, so he will be happy if the following odes may be looked upon as an attempt to bring back... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 216 pages
...carried too far, and as he looks upon Invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked...attempt to bring back Poetry into its right channel." This is a rap over the knuckles for Classicism ; in a crude and rough way VVarton here articulated... | |
 | William Lyon Phelps - English literature - 1893 - 232 pages
...carried too far, and as he looks upon Invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked...attempt to bring back Poetry into its right channel." This is a rap over the knuckles for Classicism ; in a crude and rough way Warton here articulated the... | |
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But as he is convinced that the fashion of moralizing in verse has been carried too far, and as he looks upon invention and imagination to be the chief faculties of a poet, so he will be happy if the following Odes may be looked upon as an attempt to... 
