Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 486 páginas |
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... hath furnished the means of multiplying ideas without end , and of providing every individual with a sufficient stock to answer , not only the necessities , but even the elegancies of life . 19. Further , man is endued with a sort of ...
... hath furnished the means of multiplying ideas without end , and of providing every individual with a sufficient stock to answer , not only the necessities , but even the elegancies of life . 19. Further , man is endued with a sort of ...
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... hath obtained the ascendant : men now assert their native privilege of thinking for themselves , and disdain to be ranked in any sect , whatever be the science . I am forced to except criticism , which , by what fatality I know not ...
... hath obtained the ascendant : men now assert their native privilege of thinking for themselves , and disdain to be ranked in any sect , whatever be the science . I am forced to except criticism , which , by what fatality I know not ...
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... hath discovered or collected upon that subject , he chooses to impart in the gay and agreeable form of criticism ; imagining that this form will be more relished , and perhaps be no less instructive , than a regular and labored dis ...
... hath discovered or collected upon that subject , he chooses to impart in the gay and agreeable form of criticism ; imagining that this form will be more relished , and perhaps be no less instructive , than a regular and labored dis ...
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... hath also a considerable influence to vary the natural train of 54. Illustrate how the train of thought is regulated by relations . 55. The power we have over our trains of thoughts . The natural course of ideas . 56. Train of thought ...
... hath also a considerable influence to vary the natural train of 54. Illustrate how the train of thought is regulated by relations . 55. The power we have over our trains of thoughts . The natural course of ideas . 56. Train of thought ...
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... hath still a greater influence than elevation ; and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is joined with elevation ...
... hath still a greater influence than elevation ; and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is joined with elevation ...
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action agreeable appear beauty blank verse burlesque Cæsar chapter circumstance colors connected degree dignity disagreeable distinguished distress effect elevation emotion raised epic poem epic poetry example expression external signs Falstaff feeling figure figure of speech final cause garden give grandeur gratification habit hath Hence Henry IV Hexameter Hudibras human ideas Iliad imagination impression instances Julius Cæsar kind language less Lord Kames manner means melody metaphor mind motion nature never objects of sight observation occasion ornaments Othello pain Paradise Lost passion pause peculiar perceive perceptions person pleasant emotion pleasure poem poetry present produceth proper proportion propriety qualities reason regularity relation relish remarkable resemblance respect rhyme Richard II ridicule rule scarce sense sensible sentiments Shakspeare simile sound spectator sublime syllables taste termed thee things thou thought tion tone uniformity variety verse words writer
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Página 59 - 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...
Página 261 - 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 : within a month ? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Página 413 - 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.
Página 411 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 345 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean...
Página 33 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 411 - I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are> That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Página 154 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 302 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 461 - 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 Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...