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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... give it charms fuf- ficient to engage the ear and captivate the heart of an unthinking audience . In latter times , the true poet , though in chufing materials he never left fight of utility , yet in giving them form ( and it is the ...
... give it charms fuf- ficient to engage the ear and captivate the heart of an unthinking audience . In latter times , the true poet , though in chufing materials he never left fight of utility , yet in giving them form ( and it is the ...
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... give pleasure . - But is it not the end of this art , to inftruct , as well as to please ? Verses , that give pleasure only , without profit , what are they but chiming trifles ? And if a poem were to please , and at the fame time ...
... give pleasure . - But is it not the end of this art , to inftruct , as well as to please ? Verses , that give pleasure only , without profit , what are they but chiming trifles ? And if a poem were to please , and at the fame time ...
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... give offence , except where they appear to be introduced as ex- amples for our improvement . Poetry , therefore , that is uninftructive , or immoral , cannot please those who retain any moral fenfibility , or up- rightness of judgment ...
... give offence , except where they appear to be introduced as ex- amples for our improvement . Poetry , therefore , that is uninftructive , or immoral , cannot please those who retain any moral fenfibility , or up- rightness of judgment ...
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... give a fanction to their blemishes . For this reafon it is , that I have , both here and in other places , taken the liberty to fpeak of Dryden with difapprobation . But as I would not be thought infenfible to the merit of an author ...
... give a fanction to their blemishes . For this reafon it is , that I have , both here and in other places , taken the liberty to fpeak of Dryden with difapprobation . But as I would not be thought infenfible to the merit of an author ...
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... to an amiable lady , with whofe diftrefs , as well as with her husband's on her account , we rationally fympathize , becaufe that arifes from C 4 their mutual affection : -thirdly , That the confpirators give a AND MUSIC . 23.
... to an amiable lady , with whofe diftrefs , as well as with her husband's on her account , we rationally fympathize , becaufe that arifes from C 4 their mutual affection : -thirdly , That the confpirators give a AND MUSIC . 23.
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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...