Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... Greek , may take it in the words of an old philosopher , ERATOSTHENES , who af- firmed — ποιητὴν πάντα ςοχάζεσθαι ψυχαγω γίας , ἐ διδασκαλίας —of which words , the definition given above , is the translation . This notion of the end of ...
... Greek , may take it in the words of an old philosopher , ERATOSTHENES , who af- firmed — ποιητὴν πάντα ςοχάζεσθαι ψυχαγω γίας , ἐ διδασκαλίας —of which words , the definition given above , is the translation . This notion of the end of ...
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... Greek and Latin languages , and still more , perhaps , by the prevailing notion of the monkish or gothic original of rhymed verse , all other readers , if left to themselves , would , I dare say , be more delighted with this poet , if ...
... Greek and Latin languages , and still more , perhaps , by the prevailing notion of the monkish or gothic original of rhymed verse , all other readers , if left to themselves , would , I dare say , be more delighted with this poet , if ...
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... Greek and Latin only observed quantity , should require English comedies to be written in prose , though the Greek and Latin comedies were composed in verse . For the ill application of examples , and the neglect of them , may be well ...
... Greek and Latin only observed quantity , should require English comedies to be written in prose , though the Greek and Latin comedies were composed in verse . For the ill application of examples , and the neglect of them , may be well ...
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... Greek poets should be our guides here , who take the very grandest events in their story to ennoble their tragedy . Whence it comes to pass that the action , having an essential dignity , is always interesting , and by the simplest ...
... Greek poets should be our guides here , who take the very grandest events in their story to ennoble their tragedy . Whence it comes to pass that the action , having an essential dignity , is always interesting , and by the simplest ...
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... Greek scene as in this want of simplicity in the construction of its fable . The good sense of the author of the History of the Italian Theatre ( who , though a mere player , appears to have had juster notions of the drama , than the ...
... Greek scene as in this want of simplicity in the construction of its fable . The good sense of the author of the History of the Italian Theatre ( who , though a mere player , appears to have had juster notions of the drama , than the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
action admiration Aelian Aeneis affections allusion ancient appear Aristotle beauty cerned character chuses circumstances comedy comic common conclusion copied critic degree delight disposition doth drama end of poetry entertainment epic Essay Euripides expression fable fancy FARCE genius ginal give GONDIBERT Greece Greek hath Homer human humour idea imagery imagination imita instance invention Italian Jonson kind language Latin learned least Ludlow Castle manners MARKS OF IMITATION mean Milton mind modern moral nature nihil numbers object observation occasion original paganism particular passion peculiar perhaps periphrasis persons picture plagiarism Plato Plautus pleasure poem poet poet's poetic Pope proper province racter reader reason reflexions religion repre representation resemblance rhyme ridicule rience scene sense sentiment Shakespear shew similar sion sort speak species Statius taken taste Theophrastus things thought tion tragedy true truth turn verse Virgil VOLPONE WILLIAM JEPHSON words καὶ
Passagens conhecidas
Página 256 - 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 255 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Página 256 - 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 133 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Página 256 - 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 286 - 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 256 - 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 256 - 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.
Página 278 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 256 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.