 | Thomas De Quincey - Criticism - 1876 - 590 pages
...thorny question of the quiddity, or characteristic difference, of poetry as distinguished from prose.67 We could much have wished that he had forborne to...called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain.' And the inference manifestly is, that it is rightly so called. Now,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1876 - 596 pages
...incidental and cursory a discussion, it could not receive a proper investigation ; and because Dr. Whatcly is apparently not familiar with much of what has been...called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain.' And the inference manifestly is, that it is rightly so called. Now,... | |
 | Richard Whately - English language - 1877 - 366 pages
...in Aristotle's Poetics,]) universal opinion has always given a contrary decision. Any ' omposition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called,...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. It is indeed a common figure of speech to say, in speaking of any work that is deficient in the qualities... | |
 | David Jayne Hill - English language - 1877 - 328 pages
...(and * Aristotle's Poetic, Chap. I. f Essays Cliiefly on the English Poett. \ Advancement of Learning. none that is not) is always called, whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain."* Mr. De Quincey has invalidated the Archbishop's position by showing... | |
 | Henry Morse Stephens - Books and reading - 1900 - 320 pages
...Chorus," and include Turner's landscapes and Beethoven's music. Archbishop Whately pronounced that " any composition in verse (and none that is not) is...called, whether good or bad, a poem by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain ; " but " Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November " is... | |
 | Francis Barton Gummere - Poetry - 1901 - 528 pages
...of Stuart Mill beat in vain against such a temperate statement as Whately made in his Rhetoric.4 " Any composition in verse (and none that is not) is...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. . . . The title of Poetry does not necessarily imply the requisite beauties of Poetry." Such a test,... | |
 | William Henry Hudson - Criticism - 1913 - 484 pages
...involve ourselves in various critical difficulties, is not to be denied. Whateley's declaration that " any composition in verse, and none that is not, is...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain," 2 is obviously correct. Yet it seems a hard saying, for to accept it means that we are bound to admit... | |
 | Richard Pape Cowl - English poetry - 1914 - 346 pages
...a passage in Aristotle's/brt&s1), universal opinion has always given a contrary decision. Any com- Any composition in verse (and none that is not) is always called, versea^em. whether good or bad, a poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. . . .... | |
 | N. J. Herby - 1926 - 80 pages
...themselves poetical, and as much in need of definition as the word they were meant to define. Whately says, "Any composition in verse (and none that is not) is...called, whether good or bad, a poem by all who have no favorite hypothesis to maintain". "But", says Professor Winchester, "the whole of Euclid might be put... | |
 | Viśvanātha Kavirāja - Literature - 1994 - 474 pages
...misinterpretation of a passage in Aristotle's Poetics,) universal opinion has always given a contrary decision. Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,)...all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain." The pandits furnish apparently an exception to the universality of this dictum, for if you wish to... | |
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Any composition in verse, (and none that is not,) is always called, whether good or bad, a Poem, by all who have no favourite hypothesis to maintain. 
