Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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... to please , whatever contributes to produce that end most perfectly , all circumstances taken into the account , must be thought of the nature or essence of the kind . But without carrying matters so far , let us confine 14 ON THE IDEA OF.
... to please , whatever contributes to produce that end most perfectly , all circumstances taken into the account , must be thought of the nature or essence of the kind . But without carrying matters so far , let us confine 14 ON THE IDEA OF.
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Richard Hurd. But without carrying matters so far , let us confine our attention to metre , or what we call verse . This must be essential to every work bearing the name of poem , not , because we are only accustomed to call works ...
Richard Hurd. But without carrying matters so far , let us confine our attention to metre , or what we call verse . This must be essential to every work bearing the name of poem , not , because we are only accustomed to call works ...
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... matters , was yet obliged to apologize for this impropriety in calling his play a Tragicomedy . What he says upon the occasion , though delivered with an air of pleasantry , is according to the laws of just criticism . Faciam ut ...
... matters , was yet obliged to apologize for this impropriety in calling his play a Tragicomedy . What he says upon the occasion , though delivered with an air of pleasantry , is according to the laws of just criticism . Faciam ut ...
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... affairs , with other familiar matters . These plays , continues " he , were not made up of obscene and dis " honest farces , but such as were of serious " entertainment , composed of grave and acute " sentences 66 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
... affairs , with other familiar matters . These plays , continues " he , were not made up of obscene and dis " honest farces , but such as were of serious " entertainment , composed of grave and acute " sentences 66 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
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... matter ; because these poets had given no example of such intermediate species . This , for aught appears to the contrary , may be an extension of the province of the drama . The question then must be tried by the success of this new ...
... matter ; because these poets had given no example of such intermediate species . This , for aught appears to the contrary , may be an extension of the province of the drama . The question then must be tried by the success of this new ...
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.