Elements of CriticismF.J. Huntington, and Mason & Law, 1853 - 504 páginas |
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... short duration : when prolonged , they lose their relish ; when indulged to excess , they beget satiety and disgust : and , to restore a proper tone of mind , nothing can be more happily contrived than the exhilarating pleasures of the ...
... short duration : when prolonged , they lose their relish ; when indulged to excess , they beget satiety and disgust : and , to restore a proper tone of mind , nothing can be more happily contrived than the exhilarating pleasures of the ...
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... short - It should be introduced where the subject relents . A MAN , while awake , is conscious of a continued train of percep tions and ideas passing in his mind . It requires no activity on his part to carry on the train ; nor can he ...
... short - It should be introduced where the subject relents . A MAN , while awake , is conscious of a continued train of percep tions and ideas passing in his mind . It requires no activity on his part to carry on the train ; nor can he ...
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... short here ; for till principles be un- folded , I can promise no entertainment to those who shun thinking . But I flatter myself with a different bent in the generality of readers : some few , I imagine , will relish the abstract part ...
... short here ; for till principles be un- folded , I can promise no entertainment to those who shun thinking . But I flatter myself with a different bent in the generality of readers : some few , I imagine , will relish the abstract part ...
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... short of the eye in liveliness of impression , that in a description connection ought to be carefully studied ; for new objects introduced in description are made more or less welcome in proportion to the degree of their connection with ...
... short of the eye in liveliness of impression , that in a description connection ought to be carefully studied ; for new objects introduced in description are made more or less welcome in proportion to the degree of their connection with ...
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... short hint about the causes of passion and emotion , leads to a more extensive view of the subject . Such is our nature , that upon perceiving certain external objects , we are instantaneously conscious of pleasure or pain : a gently ...
... short hint about the causes of passion and emotion , leads to a more extensive view of the subject . Such is our nature , that upon perceiving certain external objects , we are instantaneously conscious of pleasure or pain : a gently ...
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action admit agreeable appear arts beauty becomes beginning better body cause character circumstance color common connected considered course described desire disagreeable distinguished effect elevation emotion employed equally example expression external fall feeling figure force former garden give greater hand Hence human ideas imagination importance impression instances introduced kind language latter less lively manner means melody mentioned mind motion nature necessary never object observation occasion opposite pain particular passion pause perceive perceptions period person pleasant pleasure present principle produce proper proportion qualities raised reader reason reflection regularity relation remarkable requires resemblance respect rule scarcely sense sensible sentiments separately short sight signs single sort sound spectator succession syllables taste termed things thou thought tion uniformity variety verse whole writer
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Página 346 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds...
Página 47 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs ; She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Página 385 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 84 - If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : 'tis true, this god did shake...
Página 308 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects, but never once offends. « Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide : If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget 'em all.
Página 44 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent ; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look! in this place ran Cassius...
Página 110 - The lives of many. The cease of majesty Dies not alone; but like a gulf doth draw What's near it with it: it is a massy wheel, Fix'd on the summit of the highest mount, To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Are mortis'd and adjoin'd; which, when it falls, Each small annexment, petty consequence, Attends the boisterous ruin. Never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan.
Página 417 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 110 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 397 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.