 fine frenzy ' which he ascribes to the poet, — a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have...  Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature - 431 ページ 編集 - 1844全文表示 - この書籍について
 | David Masson - 1860 - 282 ページ
...a fine frenzy, doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just; but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | 1866 - 672 ページ
...Gombroon. Although truth is pronounced by Macaulay to be essential to poetry, it is, he maintains, the truth of madness : the reasonings are just, but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, he says, everything ought to be consistent; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 704 ページ
...a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 354 ページ
...Gombroon. Although truth is pronounced by Macaulay to be essential to poetry, it is, he maintains, the truth of madness : the reasonings are just, but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, he says, everything ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1871 - 704 ページ
...a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | 1872 - 660 ページ
...a fine frenzy doubtless, but still a frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just ; but the...false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing ought to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1875 - 876 ページ
...frenzy. Truth, indeed, is essential to .poetry; but it is the trulh of madness. The reasonings arc just ; but the premises are false. After the first suppositions have been made, every thing onght to be consistent ; but those first suppositions require a degree of credulity which... | |
 | 1877 - 844 ページ
...gifted with no ordinary judgment, says : — " Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the...partial and temporary derangement of the intellect." And again : — " Perhaps no person can be a poet or can even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness... | |
 | 1877 - 828 ページ
...gifted with no ordinary judgment, says: — " Truth, indeed, is essential to poetry, but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the...partial and temporary derangement of the intellect." And again : — " Perhaps no person can be a poet or can even enjoy poetry without a certain unsoundness... | |
 | Young men's Catholic assoc - 1877 - 416 ページ
...indeed essential to poetry ; but it is the truth of madness. The reasonings are just, but the premisses are false. After the first suppositions have been made, everything ought to be consistent." There can be no doubt this is a mistaken view of the office of a poet. It is quite true that the premisses... | |
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