The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... least have resolved it , if they had considered that comedy adopts as much of this force and spirit of words , as is consistent with the na ture and degree of that pleasure , which it pre- tends to give . For the name of poem will be ...
... least have resolved it , if they had considered that comedy adopts as much of this force and spirit of words , as is consistent with the na ture and degree of that pleasure , which it pre- tends to give . For the name of poem will be ...
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... least recited , it adapts itself , even in its first rude essays , to that sense of measure and proportion in sounds , which is so natural to us . The hearer's attention is the sooner gained by this means , his entertainment quickened ...
... least recited , it adapts itself , even in its first rude essays , to that sense of measure and proportion in sounds , which is so natural to us . The hearer's attention is the sooner gained by this means , his entertainment quickened ...
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... least , to a vitiated , palled , and sickly imagination — that last disease of learned minds , and sure prognostic of expiring Letters . But whatever may be the temporary success of these things . ( for they vanish as fast as they are ...
... least , to a vitiated , palled , and sickly imagination — that last disease of learned minds , and sure prognostic of expiring Letters . But whatever may be the temporary success of these things . ( for they vanish as fast as they are ...
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... least , take care to give it this foreign and extrinsic importance of great actors : Yet our passion for the familiar goes so far , that we have tragedies , not only of private action , but of private persons ; and so have well nigh an ...
... least , take care to give it this foreign and extrinsic importance of great actors : Yet our passion for the familiar goes so far , that we have tragedies , not only of private action , but of private persons ; and so have well nigh an ...
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... least scarcely any other falling beneath vulgar notice ; and the higher characters being rarely seen or contemplated by the people but with reverence , hence it is , that in fact , the representation of high life cannot , without ...
... least scarcely any other falling beneath vulgar notice ; and the higher characters being rarely seen or contemplated by the people but with reverence , hence it is , that in fact , the representation of high life cannot , without ...
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Página 250 - 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 238 - 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 239 - 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 246 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Página 237 - 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 127 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Página 270 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Página 264 - 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 250 - 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 241 - 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.