The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... instance . History undertakes to INSTRUCT us in the transactions of past times . If it answer this purpose , it does all that is of its nature ; and , if it find means to please us , besides , by the harmony of its style , and vivacity ...
... instance . History undertakes to INSTRUCT us in the transactions of past times . If it answer this purpose , it does all that is of its nature ; and , if it find means to please us , besides , by the harmony of its style , and vivacity ...
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... instance ) conducted , " in other respects , according to the rules of " the epic poem , but written in prose , may " deserve the name of POEM , or not . " For , though it be frivolous indeed to dispute about names , yet from what has ...
... instance ) conducted , " in other respects , according to the rules of " the epic poem , but written in prose , may " deserve the name of POEM , or not . " For , though it be frivolous indeed to dispute about names , yet from what has ...
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... instance , what are we to think of those novels or romances , as they are called , that is , fables constructed on some private and familiar subject , which have been so current , of late , through all Europe ? As they propose pleasure ...
... instance , what are we to think of those novels or romances , as they are called , that is , fables constructed on some private and familiar subject , which have been so current , of late , through all Europe ? As they propose pleasure ...
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... instance ; which is only another way of delighting the ear by iterated sound , and may be defined , the consonance of initial letters , as rhyme is , the consonance of final syllables . All this , I say , is of necessity , be- cause ...
... instance ; which is only another way of delighting the ear by iterated sound , and may be defined , the consonance of initial letters , as rhyme is , the consonance of final syllables . All this , I say , is of necessity , be- cause ...
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... judgment was employed , or the reason of the thing attended to , in either instance . And THUS much for the idea of UNIVERSAL POETRY . It is the art of treating any subject in such a way as is found most delightful to UNIVERSAL POETRY . 25.
... judgment was employed , or the reason of the thing attended to , in either instance . And THUS much for the idea of UNIVERSAL POETRY . It is the art of treating any subject in such a way as is found most delightful to UNIVERSAL POETRY . 25.
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action admiration Aelian Aeneis affections allusion ancient appear Aristotle authority beauty cerned character chuses circumstances comedy comic common copied critic degree delight disposition doth drama draught end of poetry entertainment epic 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 Pagan particular passion peculiar perhaps persons picture plagiarism Plato Plautus pleasure poem poet poet's poetical 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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Página 246 - 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.
Página 258 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Página 245 - 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...
Página 274 - May plume her feathers and let grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd...
Página 247 - 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.
Página 292 - 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.
Página 258 - 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
Página 249 - 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.
Página 277 - Than reason above beasts before ; Virtue was thy life's centre, and from thence Did silently and constantly dispense The gentle vigorous influence To all the wide and fair circumference...
Página 284 - 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.