Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... poet to create a Muse , we have only now to give her a voice , or more properly to tune it , and then she will be in a condition , as one of her favourites speaks , TO RAVISH ALL THE GODS . For III . It follows from the same idea of the ...
... poet to create a Muse , we have only now to give her a voice , or more properly to tune it , and then she will be in a condition , as one of her favourites speaks , TO RAVISH ALL THE GODS . For III . It follows from the same idea of the ...
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... poetic impressions . In short , he leaves measured and determi- nate numbers , that is , METRE , to the poet , who is to please up to the height of his facul- ties , and the nature of his work ; and only re- serves to himself , whose ...
... poetic impressions . In short , he leaves measured and determi- nate numbers , that is , METRE , to the poet , who is to please up to the height of his facul- ties , and the nature of his work ; and only re- serves to himself , whose ...
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... poet's aim is to please , not to instruct - is to be under- stood : nor does it appear , what reason Strabo could have to take offence at it ; however it might be misapplied , as he tells us it was , by that writer . For , though the poets ...
... poet's aim is to please , not to instruct - is to be under- stood : nor does it appear , what reason Strabo could have to take offence at it ; however it might be misapplied , as he tells us it was , by that writer . For , though the poets ...
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... poetic numbers and measured prose . In short , no method of gratifying the ear by measured sound , which experience has found pleasing , is to be neglected by the poet : and although , from the different structure and genius of ...
... poetic numbers and measured prose . In short , no method of gratifying the ear by measured sound , which experience has found pleasing , is to be neglected by the poet : and although , from the different structure and genius of ...
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... consideration in the views of the tragic poet , and are exhibited only for the sake of making the action more proper to interest us . Thus our joy , on the happy catastrophe of the fable , depends , in a good 32 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
... consideration in the views of the tragic poet , and are exhibited only for the sake of making the action more proper to interest us . Thus our joy , on the happy catastrophe of the fable , depends , in a good 32 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
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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.