Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Usefulness of Classical Learning. By James Beattie, ...E. and C. Dilly; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1779 - 515페이지 |
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... said , that " if " what is spoken on the stage shall be unfuitable " to the fortunes of the speaker , both the learned " and unlearned part of the audience will be sen- " fible of the impropriety : -For that it is of great importance to ...
... said , that " if " what is spoken on the stage shall be unfuitable " to the fortunes of the speaker , both the learned " and unlearned part of the audience will be sen- " fible of the impropriety : -For that it is of great importance to ...
201 페이지
... said , refers to the style of the drama ; whereas we would extend it to poetry , and even to composition , in gene- ral . And it may be thought , that in those writ- ings wherein the imitation of human life is lefs perfect , as in the ...
... said , refers to the style of the drama ; whereas we would extend it to poetry , and even to composition , in gene- ral . And it may be thought , that in those writ- ings wherein the imitation of human life is lefs perfect , as in the ...
238 페이지
... said , in the simple , but melodious language of the original , to have been making his own fhoes when Ulyffes came to his door ; a work which in thofe days the greateft heroes would often find neceffary . This too the tranfla- tor ...
... said , in the simple , but melodious language of the original , to have been making his own fhoes when Ulyffes came to his door ; a work which in thofe days the greateft heroes would often find neceffary . This too the tranfla- tor ...
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... said by others , I fhall only deliver my own opinion , which , if I mistake not , will be found to agree with the principles already established . First , then , I am of opinion , that to poetry verfe is not effential . In a profe work ...
... said by others , I fhall only deliver my own opinion , which , if I mistake not , will be found to agree with the principles already established . First , then , I am of opinion , that to poetry verfe is not effential . In a profe work ...
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... said to have attained the fummit of happinefs , above which a thousand years of profperity could not raise him a single tep . But for Man , her favourite child , Nature has made a more liberal provifion . He , if he have only guarded ...
... said to have attained the fummit of happinefs , above which a thousand years of profperity could not raise him a single tep . But for Man , her favourite child , Nature has made a more liberal provifion . He , if he have only guarded ...
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218 페이지 - Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
504 페이지 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts: others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
248 페이지 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
29 페이지 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
13 페이지 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
30 페이지 - ... the murmur of the rivulet and in the uproar of the ocean, in the radiance of summer and gloom of winter, in the thunder of heaven and in the whisper of the breeze, he still finds something to rouse or to soothe his imagination, to draw forth his affections, or to employ his understanding.
414 페이지 - Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin^ I think this may very well be accounted for ; laughter implies...
354 페이지 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!
150 페이지 - ... it is very imperfectly, because we know not why: — the singer, by taking up the same air, and applying words to it, immediately translates the oration into our own language; then all uncertainty vanishes, the fancy is filled with determinate ideas...
127 페이지 - When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...