 | William James - 2007 - 709 str.
...acceptable to all people because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labor of thought to examine what truth or reason there is in it,"'* But Locke's descendants have been slow to enter into the path whose frtutfulness was thus pointed out... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1829 - 616 str.
...lively a manner on the fancy, and is therefore so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears at first sight, and there is required no labour of...agreeableness of the picture, and the gaiety of the imagination; and it is a kind of affront to go about to examine it by the severe rules of truth or... | |
 | Wallace Jackson - 1973 - 138 str.
...judgment on imagistic criteria: the poetic image delights the mind which, "without looking any further, rests satisfied with the agreeableness of the picture and the gaiety of the fancy." 1 ' As late as 1740, George Turnbull is content to echo this sentiment, noting that "there is indeed... | |
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This is a way of proceeding quite contrary to metaphor and allusion,* wherein for the most part lies that entertainment and pleasantry of wit, which strikes so lively on the fancy, and therefore is so acceptable to all people, because its beauty appears... 
