Laocoon; Or The Limits of Poetry and PaintingJ. Ridgway & Sons., 1836 - 373 páginas |
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... suffer ? It is singular that his sufferings should have im- pressed us so differently . To me , loud lamen- tation seems the invariable characteristic of his grief . The shrieks and wild imprecations with which , in the agony of his ...
... suffer ? It is singular that his sufferings should have im- pressed us so differently . To me , loud lamen- tation seems the invariable characteristic of his grief . The shrieks and wild imprecations with which , in the agony of his ...
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... sufferings and his son- Ashamed of none of the frailties of human nature , he yet permitted none of them to stay his progress on the path to honour , or to with- hold him from the fulfilment of his duty . What in the savage was the ...
... sufferings and his son- Ashamed of none of the frailties of human nature , he yet permitted none of them to stay his progress on the path to honour , or to with- hold him from the fulfilment of his duty . What in the savage was the ...
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... suffering in the poisoned tunic , the work of an ancient master whose name is unknown , is not the Hercules of ... sufferings to the spec- tator ; an effect which would certainly have been destroyed by the slightest trace of the ...
... suffering in the poisoned tunic , the work of an ancient master whose name is unknown , is not the Hercules of ... sufferings to the spec- tator ; an effect which would certainly have been destroyed by the slightest trace of the ...
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... sufferings . The piteous tale of anguish is all that we hear in his shrieks , and by no other means could the poet have told it . Can we then censure him ? Nay , must we not rather acknowledge that , while the sculptor does well in not ...
... sufferings . The piteous tale of anguish is all that we hear in his shrieks , and by no other means could the poet have told it . Can we then censure him ? Nay , must we not rather acknowledge that , while the sculptor does well in not ...
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... sufferings of his hero to be , he yet felt that those sufferings were not alone sufficient to excite any con- siderable degree of sympathy . He therefore combined them with other misfortunes , equally unlikely of themselves to touch the ...
... sufferings of his hero to be , he yet felt that those sufferings were not alone sufficient to excite any con- siderable degree of sympathy . He therefore combined them with other misfortunes , equally unlikely of themselves to touch the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Achilles acquainted action admiration Æneas Æneid Æsop Agesander alluded ancient artists appear artifice Athenodorus attributes Bacchus bodily pain body Caylus Chabrias character circumstance Comte de Caylus contrary corporeal beauty critic deformity degree delineation describes disgust divine effect employed end of volume example excite executed exhibited expression eyes fancy feeling figure follow former Furies give Glasgow goddess gods Greek hand Harduin hero Homer idea Iliad imagination imitation instance Laocoon latter less Lysippus Mars means nature Neoptolemus never Nicias Note object observed Olympiad opinion Ovid painter painting passage Pausanias Phidias Philoctetes Pliny poet poetic pictures poetry Polydorus Polygnotus produce Pythodorus reference render represented ridiculous Roman says sceptre sculptor sect SECTION serpents shield shrieks sight single Sophocles spectator Spence Statius statue sufferings suppose sympathy taste Timanthes tion traits Translator true Venus Vesta Virgil whole Winkelmann words writer δε
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Página 243 - But I, that am not shap'd for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass ; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph ; I, that am curtail...
Página 243 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Página 322 - ... et jam bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Página 208 - Sotto quel sta, quasi fra due vallette La bocca sparsa di natio cinabro; Quivi due filze son di perle elette, Che chiude ed apre un bello, e dolce labro: Quindi escon le cortesi parolette Da render molle ogni cor rozzo e scabro: Quivi si forma quel soave riso, Ch'apre a sua posta in terra il paradiso. Bianca neve è il bel collo, e...
Página 160 - This sceptre, form'd by temper'd steel, to prove An ensign of the delegates of Jove, From whom the power of laws and justice springs (Tremendous oath! inviolate to kings): By this I swear, when bleeding Greece again Shall call Achilles, she shall call in vain.
Página 243 - Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...
Página 194 - The' appointed heralds still the noisy bands, And form a ring, with sceptres in their hands : On seats of stone, within the sacred place, The reverend elders nodded o'er the case ; Alternate, each the...
Página 242 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moon-shines Lag of a brother? Why bastard?
Página 243 - That dogs bark at me, as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time...
Página 155 - Of sounding brass ; the polished axle, steel. Eight brazen spokes in radiant order flame ; The circles gold, of uncorrupted frame, Such as the heavens produce : and round the gold, Two brazen rings of work divine were roll'd.