The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... tion , pleasure is subordinate to USE : in poetry only , PLEASURE is the end , to which use itself ( however it be , for certain reasons , always pre- tended ) must submit . This idea of the end of poetry is no novel one , but indeed ...
... tion , pleasure is subordinate to USE : in poetry only , PLEASURE is the end , to which use itself ( however it be , for certain reasons , always pre- tended ) must submit . This idea of the end of poetry is no novel one , but indeed ...
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... tion . Novelty and variety are certain sources of pleasure : a construction of words , which is not vulgar , is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry , than one which we are every day accustomed to in familiar discourse . Some ...
... tion . Novelty and variety are certain sources of pleasure : a construction of words , which is not vulgar , is therefore more suited to the ends of poetry , than one which we are every day accustomed to in familiar discourse . Some ...
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... tion . In process of time , what was at first the extemporaneous production of genius or passion , under the conduct of a natu- ral ear , becomes the labour of the closet , and is conducted by artificial rules ; yet still , with a ...
... tion . In process of time , what was at first the extemporaneous production of genius or passion , under the conduct of a natu- ral ear , becomes the labour of the closet , and is conducted by artificial rules ; yet still , with a ...
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... tion , all this is to be accounted as pure gain : if it instructed ONLY , by the truth of its reports , and the perspicuity of its method , it would fully attain its end . Poetry , on the other hand , undertakes to PLEASE . If it em ...
... tion , all this is to be accounted as pure gain : if it instructed ONLY , by the truth of its reports , and the perspicuity of its method , it would fully attain its end . Poetry , on the other hand , undertakes to PLEASE . If it em ...
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... tion . So that , to be consistent with himself , he should , methinks , have said — that poesy was a part of learning in measure of words ALWAYS restrained ; such poesy , as , through the idleness or negligence of writers , is not so ...
... tion . So that , to be consistent with himself , he should , methinks , have said — that poesy was a part of learning in measure of words ALWAYS restrained ; such poesy , as , through the idleness or negligence of writers , is not so ...
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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.