 | 1829 - 1092 pagina’s
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 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 pagina’s
...shewing in what way the early state of society is favorable to poetical excellence, says, " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light... | |
 | 1833 - 360 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pagina’s
...showing in what way the early state of society is favourable to poetical excellence, says : — " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 pagina’s
...showing in what way the early state of society is favourable to poetical excellence, says :— " Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 pagina’s
...of the body. And as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in & dark age. As the light of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, aa the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and... | |
 | 1849 - 606 pagina’s
...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...of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outline of certainty becomes more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pagina’s
...among those who participate most in its improvements. They 'inger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a magic lantern produces an illusion on :he eye of the body. And. as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry cft'ec.ts its purpose... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 pagina’s
...traffic ; he has diverted from it invigorating rills to refresh the garden of literature. 14. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...produces an illusion on the eye of the body. And as a magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose best in a dark age. As the light... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 pagina’s
...among those who participate most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry ttie body. And, as the magic lantern acts best in a dark room, poetry effects its purpose most completely... | |
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Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a 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. 
