 A poem is that species of composition which is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth; and from all other species (having this object in common with it) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight...  The Methodist Review - Page 1971904Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1817 - 316 pages
...accent and sound are calculated to excite. The final definition then, so deduced, may be thus worded. A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed...a distinct gratification from each component part. Controversy is not seldom excited in consequence of the disputants attaching each a different meaning... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1834 - 360 pages
...accent and sound are calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed...a distinct gratification from each component part. Controversy is not seldom excited, in consequence of the disputants attaching each a different meaning... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1840 - 582 pages
...cent and sound is calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : xious thoughts By the soft languishment of warbled...sorrow for a while. $15 SJOtt (Soft Miiiic). Enter »•/,,, -'i . as is compatible with a distinct gratification from each component part. Controversy... | |
 | Asa Mahan - 1845 - 348 pages
...definitions of the subject which I have met with. I will present, as an example, that given by Coleridge : " A poem is that species of composition which is opposed...distinct gratification from each component part." The great objection to this definition is, that many prose, as well as poetical compositions, would... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1845 - 582 pages
...final definition, then, so deduced, may be Ihus worded : A poem is that species of composition, wl.ich is opposed to works of science, by proposing for its...pleasure, not truth ; and from all other species, (having titis object in common with it.) it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from tho whole,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 pages
...accent and sound are calculated to excite. The final definition then, so deduced, may be thus worded. A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed...a distinct gratification from each component part. and in few instances has this been more striking, than in dis. putes concerning the present subject.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 376 pages
...accent and sound are calculated to excite. The final definition then, so deduced, may be thus worded. A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed...proposing to itself such delight from the whole, as is compatibTe with a distinct gratification from each component part. and in few instances has this been... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 pages
...excite. The final definition then, so deduced, may be thus worded. A poem is that species of com-- ... its immediate object pleasure, not truth ; and from all other species . — (having tJds object in common with it) — it is discriminated by proposing to itself such delight from the... | |
 | 1848 - 722 pages
...accent and sound are calculated to excite. The final definition, then, so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed...distinct gratification from each component part." The discrimination here made seems to cover too much ; for the gratification received from each part... | |
 | 1848 - 734 pages
...accent and sound are calculated to excite. The final definition, then. so deduced, may be thus worded : A poem is that species of composition, which is opposed...distinct gratification from each component part." The discrimination here made seems to cover too much ; for the gratification received from each part... | |
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