 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.  The Living Age - Page 1561911Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 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... | |
 | 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...knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, — as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 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 - 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...knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions — as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 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...of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 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...of knowledge breaks in upon its exhibitions, as the outlines of certainty become more and more definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct,... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - 322 pages
...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 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...definite, and the shades of probability more and more distinct, the hues and lineaments of the phantoms which it calls up grow fainter and fainter. We cannot... | |
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