Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... distinguishable ; and the precise meaning of each must be afcer- tained . Congruity is the genus , of which propriety is a species . For we call nothing propriety , but that congruity or fuitableness which ought to fubfift betwixt ...
... distinguishable ; and the precise meaning of each must be afcer- tained . Congruity is the genus , of which propriety is a species . For we call nothing propriety , but that congruity or fuitableness which ought to fubfift betwixt ...
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... distinguishable into burlesque that excites laughter merely , and burlesque that provokes derifion or ridicule . A grave subject in which there is no impropriety , may be brought down by a certain colouring fo as to be rifible . This is ...
... distinguishable into burlesque that excites laughter merely , and burlesque that provokes derifion or ridicule . A grave subject in which there is no impropriety , may be brought down by a certain colouring fo as to be rifible . This is ...
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... distinguishable from those now men- tioned . It is not properly a burlefque per- formance , but what may rather be termed an beroi - comical poem . It treats a gay and familiar fubject , with pleasantry and with a moderate degree of ...
... distinguishable from those now men- tioned . It is not properly a burlefque per- formance , but what may rather be termed an beroi - comical poem . It treats a gay and familiar fubject , with pleasantry and with a moderate degree of ...
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... proper fenfe , as fuggested a- bove , is distinguishable into two kinds ; wit in the thought , and wit in the words or ex- preffion . Again , wit in the thought is of two two kinds ; ludicrous images , and ludicrous combinations of 58 ...
... proper fenfe , as fuggested a- bove , is distinguishable into two kinds ; wit in the thought , and wit in the words or ex- preffion . Again , wit in the thought is of two two kinds ; ludicrous images , and ludicrous combinations of 58 ...
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... distinguishable from each other by their external expreffions . In the emotions ac- cordingly raised by external signs of pleasant paffions , there is little variety . They are pleasant or chearful , and we have not words to reach a ...
... distinguishable from each other by their external expreffions . In the emotions ac- cordingly raised by external signs of pleasant paffions , there is little variety . They are pleasant or chearful , and we have not words to reach a ...
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Página 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Página 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Página 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Página 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Página 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Página 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Página 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Página 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Página 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...