Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... Homer , is vitally concerned . 66 66 First , “ Whether that Conformity in Phrase or Sentiment between two writers of dif- ferent times , which we call IMITATION , may " not with probability enough , for the most part , be accounted for ...
... Homer , is vitally concerned . 66 66 First , “ Whether that Conformity in Phrase or Sentiment between two writers of dif- ferent times , which we call IMITATION , may " not with probability enough , for the most part , be accounted for ...
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... Homer's gods , Milton's angels , or Shakespear's witches ; it being clear , that these are only human characters , diversified by such attributes and manners , as superstition , religion , or even wayward fancy , had assigned to each ...
... Homer's gods , Milton's angels , or Shakespear's witches ; it being clear , that these are only human characters , diversified by such attributes and manners , as superstition , religion , or even wayward fancy , had assigned to each ...
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... Homer . are , without any change , An instance will explain my meaning , Amidst all that diversity of natural objects , which the poet delights to paint , nothing is so taking to his imagination , as rural scenery ; which is , always ...
... Homer . are , without any change , An instance will explain my meaning , Amidst all that diversity of natural objects , which the poet delights to paint , nothing is so taking to his imagination , as rural scenery ; which is , always ...
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... person , the very same attitude , which is made analogous to the circumstance before specified , and is to suggest it , will , as I said , be represented by different writers very dif- ferently . Homer 124 A DISCOURSE ON.
... person , the very same attitude , which is made analogous to the circumstance before specified , and is to suggest it , will , as I said , be represented by different writers very dif- ferently . Homer 124 A DISCOURSE ON.
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Richard Hurd. be represented by different writers very dif- ferently . Homer , to express the rise or ap- pearance of this person , speaks of her as shooting forth from the ocean : ΩΡΝΥΘ . ΑΠ ΩΚΕΑΝΟΙΟ ΡΟΛΩΝ Virgil , as rising from the ...
Richard Hurd. be represented by different writers very dif- ferently . Homer , to express the rise or ap- pearance of this person , speaks of her as shooting forth from the ocean : ΩΡΝΥΘ . ΑΠ ΩΚΕΑΝΟΙΟ ΡΟΛΩΝ Virgil , as rising from 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.