Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... nature of things . But they , who like a principle the better for seeing it in Greek , may take it in the words of an old philosopher , ERATOSTHENES , who af- firmed — ποιητὴν πάντα ςοχάζεσθαι ψυχαγω γίας , ἐ διδασκαλίας —of which words ...
... nature of things . But they , who like a principle the better for seeing it in Greek , may take it in the words of an old philosopher , ERATOSTHENES , who af- firmed — ποιητὴν πάντα ςοχάζεσθαι ψυχαγω γίας , ἐ διδασκαλίας —of which words ...
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... natures ; nay , to out- strip nature , and to address itself to our wildest fancy , rather than to our judgment and cooler sense . Οὔτ ̓ ἐπιδερατὰ τάδ ' ἀνδράσιν , ἔτ ̓ ἐπακεςὰ , Οὔτε νόῳ περίληπτα As sings one of the profession , who ...
... natures ; nay , to out- strip nature , and to address itself to our wildest fancy , rather than to our judgment and cooler sense . Οὔτ ̓ ἐπιδερατὰ τάδ ' ἀνδράσιν , ἔτ ̓ ἐπακεςὰ , Οὔτε νόῳ περίληπτα As sings one of the profession , who ...
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... natures to astonish , the imagination ; assem- bles , combines , or connects its ideas , at plea- sure ; in short ... nature of things . For all this is but a feeble expression of that magic virtue of poetry , which our Shakespear has ...
... natures to astonish , the imagination ; assem- bles , combines , or connects its ideas , at plea- sure ; in short ... nature of things . For all this is but a feeble expression of that magic virtue of poetry , which our Shakespear has ...
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... nature of the thing itself why these pleasures should not be united , it follows that poetry will not be that which it professes to be , that is , will not accomplish its own purpose , unless it delight the ear with numbers , or , in ...
... nature of the thing itself why these pleasures should not be united , it follows that poetry will not be that which it professes to be , that is , will not accomplish its own purpose , unless it delight the ear with numbers , or , in ...
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... nature of the composition which forbids the use of it , I know not why Aristotle's idea should not be adopted , and his precept become a standing law of the tragic stage . For this , as every other poem , being calculated and designed ...
... nature of the composition which forbids the use of it , I know not why Aristotle's idea should not be adopted , and his precept become a standing law of the tragic stage . For this , as every other poem , being calculated and designed ...
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
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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.