 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 pages
...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... | |
 | English literature - 1833 - 360 pages
...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... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...among those who parlicipatc most in its improvements. They linger longest among the peasantry. Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, (he hues and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up grow fainter and... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...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 - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...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... | |
 | 1839 - 394 pages
...one of the ablest exponents of this unfavourable view of the effects of civilization on the arts, " produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a...more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct — the hues and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up grow fainter and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1840 - 464 pages
...Poetry produces an illusion on the eye of the mind, as a . * See the Dialogue between Socrates and lo. magic lantern produces an illusion on the eye of the...more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, the hues and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up grow fainter and... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 390 pages
...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...more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, the hues and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up grow * Seethe Dialogue... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 606 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
