 I think it is not difficult to perceive, that the admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The objects of their love are, perhaps, of equal beauty, though they greatly differ in their air, their dress, the turn of their features, and their...  Essays, Moral and Literary - Page 54by Vicesimus Knox - 1803Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 432 pages
...taste of our own country, and our own times. I think it is not difficult to perceive, that the admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...Pope. Now it happens, unfortunately, that those who are in love with one of these forms are, sometimes, so blind to the charms of the other, as to dispute... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1824 - 612 pages
...taste of our own country and our own times. I think it is not difficult to perceive, that the admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...complexion. On one side, are the lovers and imitators of Spencer and Milton ; and on the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope. Now it happens, unfortunately,... | |
 | Thomas Sergeant Perry - Literary Criticism - 1883 - 500 pages
...attention. Knox, No. cxxix., also says: " I think it is not difficult to perceive, that the admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...on the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope." In the same paper Knox regrets that blankTerse was the object of " an unreasonable prejudice," and... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1898 - 478 pages
...quotes another paper of Knox in which he divides the admirers of English poetry into two parties: " On one side are the lovers and imitators of Spenser...on the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope": in modern phrase, the romanticists and the classicists. Joseph Warton's " Essay on Pope" was an attempt... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - English literature - 1899 - 480 pages
...quotes another paper of Knox in which he divides the admirers of English poetry into two parties: " On one side are the lovers and imitators of Spenser and Milton; and on the other, those of Dryden, Botleau, and Pope ": in modern phrase, the romanticists and the classicists. Joseph Warton's " Essay... | |
 | Traugott Böhme - English literature - 1911 - 370 pages
...agreed with him in disapproving the filthy images, and the loathsome, bloody allegories of the FQ." ') „On one side are the lovers and imitators of Spenser...on the other, -those of Dryden, Boileau and Pope." — „Let both schools flourish and receive their due applause, nor let those, who have only acquired... | |
 | Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...1782, Vicesimus Knox also compares men of wit (and specifically poets) to beauties: [T]he admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...on the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope. 2 Knox's trope here places poets in the subordinate role of women whose attractive charms are observed... | |
 | Catherine Ingrassia, Claudia N. Thomas - Poetry - 2000 - 262 pages
...1782, Vicesimus Knox also compares men of wit (and specifically poets) to beauties: [T]he admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...on the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope. 2 Knox's trope here places poets in the subordinate role of women whose attractive charms are observed... | |
 | John Sitter - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 322 pages
...schools of poetic taste were in opposition: I think it is not difficult to perceive, that the admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...Milton; and on the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope.5' Vicesimus Knox devotes the rest of his essay to bringing the two sides together and seeing... | |
 | Lynda Pratt - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 320 pages
...'parties' identified by Vicesimus Knox in 1782: I think it is not difficult to perceive, that the admirers of English poetry are divided into two parties. The...the other, those of Dryden, Boileau, and Pope.|() Johnson's 'Progress of Refinement' narrative made it difficult to conceive how poetry might develop... | |
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