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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... description of the heavens Ho and earth , as they appear in a calm evening by the light of the moon and stars , concludes with this circumftance , " And the heart of the fhep- + Hor . Carm . lib . 4 . ode 9 . 4 . * Hor . Sat. lib . 1 ...
... description of the heavens Ho and earth , as they appear in a calm evening by the light of the moon and stars , concludes with this circumftance , " And the heart of the fhep- + Hor . Carm . lib . 4 . ode 9 . 4 . * Hor . Sat. lib . 1 ...
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... descriptions , however beautiful , and moral reflections , however juft , become tiresome , where our paffions are not occafionally awakened by fome event that concerns our fellow - men . Do not all readers of tafte receive peculiar ...
... descriptions , however beautiful , and moral reflections , however juft , become tiresome , where our paffions are not occafionally awakened by fome event that concerns our fellow - men . Do not all readers of tafte receive peculiar ...
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... description , which was not warranted by fufficient authority . It has been the language of critics in every age , that the hiftorian ought to relate no- thing as true which is falfe or dubious , and to con- ceal nothing material which ...
... description , which was not warranted by fufficient authority . It has been the language of critics in every age , that the hiftorian ought to relate no- thing as true which is falfe or dubious , and to con- ceal nothing material which ...
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... descriptions , particularly that of the plague of Athens : And the fame thing has been practifed , with greater la ... description into a detail of fictitious events , as Voltaire has done in his account of the battle of Fontenoy , he ...
... descriptions , particularly that of the plague of Athens : And the fame thing has been practifed , with greater la ... description into a detail of fictitious events , as Voltaire has done in his account of the battle of Fontenoy , he ...
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... description , that enume- rates all the qualities of any object , is certainly good , because it is true ; but may be as unaffect- ing as a logical definition . In poetry no unaffect- ing description is good , however conformable to ...
... description , that enume- rates all the qualities of any object , is certainly good , because it is true ; but may be as unaffect- ing as a logical definition . In poetry no unaffect- ing description is good , however conformable to ...
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abfurd admiration Æneid affections agreeable alfo almoſt alſo ancient arifes beauty becauſe beſt cauſe character Cicero circumſtances compariſon compofition confequently confiftent converfation defcribe defcription defign Dido difplay diftinguiſhed Dryden effential emotions Engliſh Epic expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fancy faſhion fatire feem fenfe fenfibility fentiments fhall fhould fimilar firſt fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpeech ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuitable fuperior fuppofed genius Georgic give Greek harmony hiftory himſelf Homer Hudibras human humour ideas Iliad imitation inftruction interefting itſelf language laughter leaſt lefs Loft ludicrous meaſure mind moft moral moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary numbers obferve object occafion paffage paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry prefent profe purpoſe Quintilian racter raiſe reader reaſon refpect ridiculous ſeems ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtudy ſtyle ſuppoſed tafte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion underſtanding uſe verf verſe Virgil whofe words writing
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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...