 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 452 pages
...distinguishes it from prose. §13. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...distinguishes it from prose. § is. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is " the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal sacred passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,... | |
 | 1857 - 542 pages
...the primary business of the poet ; to what extent they confirm Mr. Ruskin's definition of poetry, ' the suggestion, by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions,' — these points, however, must be left to the reader. Laws of taste are not as those of morals ; nor... | |
 | Edward Young - Pre-Raphaelitism - 1857 - 370 pages
...thouo-ht and feeling. Mr. Buskin's conclusion, ( < after O *— ' some embarrassment," is that " poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I doubt if we can even assume " noble grounds " as its essential, still less as its discriminative... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 496 pages
...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emotions, those four principal secret passions — Love, Veneration, Admiration,... | |
 | 1863 - 530 pages
...We are inclined, so far at least as regards all the higher kinds of poetry, to accept Mr. Buskin's definition : ' the suggestion, by the imagination,...three who are considered in the present age to occupy the highest thrones in the realms of poesy, Homer, Dante and Shakspeare, are all (according to their... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Literary Criticism - 1866 - 362 pages
...defined to be the expression of the imagination ;" and Mr. Ruskin came to the conclusion that " poetry is the suggestion by the imagination of noble grounds for the noble emotions." It thus became the first commandment of English criticism that in poetry there are no gods but one... | |
 | University of the State of New York - Education - 1870 - 228 pages
...pleasures of the understanding. Poetry is the expression of the beautiful by words. Kuskin defines it " as the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." It is a product of the imagination, and gives to it its best culture. It is, therefore, of great importance... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 pages
...actually distinguishes it from prose. I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry i§ "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions." I mean, by the noble emo tions, those four principal secret passions — I(Ove, Veneration, Admiration,... | |
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I come, after some embarrassment, to the conclusion, that poetry is "the suggestion, by the imagination, of noble grounds for the noble emotions. 
