 | Meyer Howard Abrams - 1971 - 420 페이지
...say, 'It is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.' 1* The theorists we now single out as aesthetic primitivists departed from this quite orthodox neo-classic... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1984 - 860 페이지
...reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance i;iograpma lam-ana. i COLERIDGE 1 . Note by Coleridge to his son Derwent inscribed on the half-title... | |
 | Timothy Steele, Clara Gyorgyey - 1990 - 366 페이지
...reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention and the latter in elegance and refinement.'" In the second half of the eighteenth century, a work appeared that significantly contributed to the... | |
 | David Spadafora, James Spada - 1990 - 488 페이지
...Rasselas ( 1 759), the "early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: . . . the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement." A balance of nature and art, of imagination and reason, of simplicity and elegance was not in itself... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 페이지
...asserting, "It is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement."47 The tension between invention and judgment settled in the disputes we followed in the... | |
 | Howard Anderson - 1967 - 429 페이지
...the 1 first half of Imlac's account of his apprenticeship as a poet, and of what a poet should be: "I was desirous to add my name to this illustrious...great by imitation. My desire of excellence impelled me to transfer my attention to nature and to life. Nature was to be my subject, and men to be my auditors;... | |
 | Richard G. Terry - 2001 - 378 페이지
...Imlac says in Rasselas, the 'early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art... the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement'. 98 Which of the two states and two aesthetics might be seen as superior was a matter on which no consensus... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 페이지
...reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art: that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement.'20 He might have instanced Blackwell among the observers. Imlac also asserts that 'No man... | |
 | 1908 - 768 페이지
...reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art : that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement." A sentiment more appropriate and applicable to the writer whose life-work is so dear to the heart of... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1853 - 520 페이지
...It is commonly found that the most ancient writers are in possession of nature, htid their followers of art; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement." Explain this passage, and give illustrations of it from the history of English Poetry. MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.... | |
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Whatever be the reason, it is commonly observed that the early writers are in possession of nature, and their followers of art ; that the first excel in strength and invention, and the latter in elegance and refinement. 
