Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... pleasure is subordinate to USE : in poetry only , PLEASURE is the end , to which use itself ( however it be , for certain reasons , always pre- tended ) must submit . This idea of the end of poetry is no novel one , but indeed the very ...
... pleasure is subordinate to USE : in poetry only , PLEASURE is the end , to which use itself ( however it be , for certain reasons , always pre- tended ) must submit . This idea of the end of poetry is no novel one , but indeed the very ...
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... pleasure : a construction of words , which is not vulgar , is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry , than one which we are every day accustomed to in familiar discourse . Some manners of placing them are , also , more agree- able ...
... pleasure : a construction of words , which is not vulgar , is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry , than one which we are every day accustomed to in familiar discourse . Some manners of placing them are , also , more agree- able ...
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... pleasure : And hence a certain musical cadence , or what we call Rhythm , will be affected by the poet . But , of all the means of adorning and en- livening a discourse by words , which are infi- nite , and perpetually grow upon us , as ...
... pleasure : And hence a certain musical cadence , or what we call Rhythm , will be affected by the poet . But , of all the means of adorning and en- livening a discourse by words , which are infi- nite , and perpetually grow upon us , as ...
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... pleasure , which it pre- tends to give . For the name of poem will be- long to every composition , whose primary end is to please , provided it be so constructed as to afford all the pleasure , which its kind or sort will permit . II ...
... pleasure , which it pre- tends to give . For the name of poem will be- long to every composition , whose primary end is to please , provided it be so constructed as to afford all the pleasure , which its kind or sort will permit . II ...
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... pleasure , and take a pride to erect its specious wonders on so proper and convenient a ground . Whence it cannot seem strange that , of all the forms in which poetry has appeared , that of pagan fable , and gothic romance , should , in ...
... pleasure , and take a pride to erect its specious wonders on so proper and convenient a ground . Whence it cannot seem strange that , of all the forms in which poetry has appeared , that of pagan fable , and gothic romance , should , in ...
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.