Elements of criticism [by H. Home].Bell & Bradfute, A. Constable & Company, and J. Fairbairn, [and others], 1817 - 515 páginas |
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... building , perhaps more success- fully than in a garden ; but as to the other emo- tions above mentioned ... build- * See Chap . 8 . " The citizen , who in his villa has but an acre for a gar " den , must have it diversified with every ...
... building , perhaps more success- fully than in a garden ; but as to the other emo- tions above mentioned ... build- * See Chap . 8 . " The citizen , who in his villa has but an acre for a gar " den , must have it diversified with every ...
Página 386
... building ought to have a certain character or expression suited to its desti- nation , yet this refinement has scarce been at- tempted by any artist . A death's - head and bones employed in monumental buildings , will indeed produce an ...
... building ought to have a certain character or expression suited to its desti- nation , yet this refinement has scarce been at- tempted by any artist . A death's - head and bones employed in monumental buildings , will indeed produce an ...
Página 387
... building , pillars , vases , statues , and a profusion of carved work . Thus some women defective in taste , are apt to overcharge every part of their dress with ornament . Superfluity of decoration hath another bad effect ; it gives ...
... building , pillars , vases , statues , and a profusion of carved work . Thus some women defective in taste , are apt to overcharge every part of their dress with ornament . Superfluity of decoration hath another bad effect ; it gives ...
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... build- ings , that nature and art may be mutually ornamen- * In France and Italy , a garden is disposed like the human body , alleys , like legs and arms , answering each other ; the great walk in the middle representing the trunk of ...
... build- ings , that nature and art may be mutually ornamen- * In France and Italy , a garden is disposed like the human body , alleys , like legs and arms , answering each other ; the great walk in the middle representing the trunk of ...
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... building , it becomes a difficult task to attain both in any perfection . The In a hot country it is a capital object to have what may be termed a summer - garden ; that is , a spot of ground disposed by art and by nature to exclude the ...
... building , it becomes a difficult task to attain both in any perfection . The In a hot country it is a capital object to have what may be termed a summer - garden ; that is , a spot of ground disposed by art and by nature to exclude the ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
abstract accent action admit Æneid agreeable allegory appear beauty blank verse capital Carm Chap circumstance colour comparison composition confined connected connexion couplet Demetrius Phalereus distinguished effect elevation emotions employed Eneid epic poem epic poetry equally expression figure of speech Fingal foregoing garden give hath Hence Henry IV Hexameter Horat idea Iliad imagination imitation impression ject Julius Cæsar kind language less light long syllable manner means melody metaphor mind motion nature never object observed ornaments Paradise Lost passion pause perceive perception period personification pleasure poet principal pronounced proper proportion Quintilian reader reason regularity relation relish resem resemblance respect rhyme Richard II rule scarce scene sect sense sensible short syllables signify simile sion sound spectator Spondees substantive taste termed thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tree unity variety verb verse words writer
Passagens conhecidas
Página 299 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Página 171 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 230 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 210 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Página 163 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Página 182 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 316 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 249 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Página 244 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 298 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.