 | Richard Whately - 1833 - 376 pagina’s
...where it certainly means metre without music; or, as he calls it in another passage of the same work, that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad,...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any work that is deficient in the qualities... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1839 - 372 pagina’s
...where it certainly means metre without music; or, as he calls it in another passage of the same work, that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad,...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any work that is deficient in the qualities... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1841 - 558 pagina’s
...misinterpretation of a passage in Aristotle's Poetics,^ universal opinion has always given a contrary decision. Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,)...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any work that is deficient in the * See... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1841 - 374 pagina’s
...certainly means metre witltout music; or, as he calls it in another passage of the same work, i/nlofierQla. that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad,...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any work that is deficient in the qualities... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1846 - 366 pagina’s
...misinterpretation of a passage in Aristotle's Poetics ,t) universal opinion has always given a contrary decision. Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,)...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any work that is deficient in the qualities... | |
 | 1850 - 560 pagina’s
...tion of a passage in Aristotle's Poeties) , universal opinion "has always given a contrary decision. Any composition in " verse, (and none that is not,)...all who have no favourite hypothesis to "maintain." Now for our own part, we should have little objection, at times, to a hypothesis which so conveniently... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 382 pagina’s
...allowed himself to deliver so nugatory an argument as this which follows: — 'Any composition in rerse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain.' And the inference manifestly is, that it is rightly so called. Now,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 372 pagina’s
...distinguished from prose. 9 We could much have wished that he had forborne to meddle with a qucestio vexata of this nature, both because, in so incidental...called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain.' And the inference manifestly is, that it is rightly so called. Now,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1853 - 370 pagina’s
...distinguished from prose. 9 We could much have wished that he had forborne to meddle with a qutestio vexata of this nature, both because, in so incidental...called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain.' And the inference manifestly is, that it is rightly so called. Now,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1853 - 564 pagina’s
...of a passage in Aristotle's " Poetics," t) universal opinion has always given a contrary decision. Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,)...called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any... | |
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Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. 
