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... hand , undertakes to PLEASE . If it em- ploy all its powers to this purpose , it effects all that is of its nature : if it serve , besides , to inform or instruct us , by the truths it conveys , and by the precepts or examples it ...
... hand , undertakes to PLEASE . If it em- ploy all its powers to this purpose , it effects all that is of its nature : if it serve , besides , to inform or instruct us , by the truths it conveys , and by the precepts or examples it ...
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... we may take up with half - formed pleasures , such as come first to hand , and may be administered by any body : But true taste requires chaste , severe , and simple pleasures ; and true genius will only be 20 ON THE IDEA OF.
... we may take up with half - formed pleasures , such as come first to hand , and may be administered by any body : But true taste requires chaste , severe , and simple pleasures ; and true genius will only be 20 ON THE IDEA OF.
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... hand , we sympathize more strongly with him , on a distressful issue . The manners of the several persons in the drama must , also , be signified , that the ac- tion , which in many cases will be determined by them , may appear to be ...
... hand , we sympathize more strongly with him , on a distressful issue . The manners of the several persons in the drama must , also , be signified , that the ac- tion , which in many cases will be determined by them , may appear to be ...
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... hands . Indeed they have reason . For it hides their inability to colour manners , which is the proper but much harder ... hand , can neglect these scrupulous measures of probability , as intent only on exhibiting characters ; for which ...
... hands . Indeed they have reason . For it hides their inability to colour manners , which is the proper but much harder ... hand , can neglect these scrupulous measures of probability , as intent only on exhibiting characters ; for which ...
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... hand , is not a picture of cruelty , but of a cruel man . Yet here it will be proper to guard against two mistakes , which the principles now deli- vered may be thought to countenance . The first is with regard to tragic characters ...
... hand , is not a picture of cruelty , but of a cruel man . Yet here it will be proper to guard against two mistakes , which the principles now deli- vered may be thought to countenance . The first is with regard to tragic characters ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action admiration Aelian Aeneis affections allusion ancient appear Aristotle beauty cerned character chuses circumstances comedy comic common conclusion copied critic degree delight disposition doth drama end of poetry entertainment epic Essay Euripides expression fable fancy FARCE genius ginal give GONDIBERT Greece Greek hath Homer human humour idea imagery imagination imita instance invention Italian Jonson kind language Latin learned least Ludlow Castle manners MARKS OF IMITATION mean Milton mind modern moral nature nihil numbers object observation occasion original paganism particular passion peculiar perhaps periphrasis persons picture plagiarism Plato Plautus pleasure poem poet poet's poetic Pope proper province racter reader reason reflexions religion repre representation resemblance rhyme ridicule rience scene sense sentiment Shakespear shew similar sion sort speak species Statius taken taste Theophrastus things thought tion tragedy true truth turn verse Virgil VOLPONE WILLIAM JEPHSON words καὶ
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 256 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Seite 255 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Seite 256 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Seite 133 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Seite 256 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Seite 286 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Seite 256 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Seite 256 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Seite 278 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Seite 256 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.