Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, 2권William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - 555페이지 |
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... manner , we fhall venture to affirm , that Pope may found a fimilar claim , and with equal justice , on the perfection of his tafte ; and that , if the critical writings of the firft are more voluminous , those of the fecond are more ...
... manner , we fhall venture to affirm , that Pope may found a fimilar claim , and with equal justice , on the perfection of his tafte ; and that , if the critical writings of the firft are more voluminous , those of the fecond are more ...
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... manner of Virgil , and bor . rows the thoughts of Ifaiah , Pope is fuperior not only to himfelf , but to almost all other poets . * See Rape of the Lock , canto 2. verf . 55 .; and Lutrin , chant . 2. verf . 100 . All All poetry ...
... manner of Virgil , and bor . rows the thoughts of Ifaiah , Pope is fuperior not only to himfelf , but to almost all other poets . * See Rape of the Lock , canto 2. verf . 55 .; and Lutrin , chant . 2. verf . 100 . All All poetry ...
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... manners . Hence we admit the theo- logy of the ancient poets , their Elyfium and Tartarus , Scylla and Charybdis , Cyclops and Circe , and the rest of those " beautiful won- ders " ( as Horace calls them ) which were believed in the ...
... manners . Hence we admit the theo- logy of the ancient poets , their Elyfium and Tartarus , Scylla and Charybdis , Cyclops and Circe , and the rest of those " beautiful won- ders " ( as Horace calls them ) which were believed in the ...
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... manners conformable to his descent , we are easily reconciled to the fiction . In the fame sense , the Lilliputians of Swift may pass for probable beings ; not fo much because we know that a belief in pygmies was once current in the ...
... manners conformable to his descent , we are easily reconciled to the fiction . In the fame sense , the Lilliputians of Swift may pass for probable beings ; not fo much because we know that a belief in pygmies was once current in the ...
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... manner of grave authors . His ravings , which have no better right to the name of Fable , than a hill of rubbish has to that of Palace , are deftitute of every colour of plaufibility . Animal trees , ships failing in the fky , armies of ...
... manner of grave authors . His ravings , which have no better right to the name of Fable , than a hill of rubbish has to that of Palace , are deftitute of every colour of plaufibility . Animal trees , ships failing in the fky , armies of ...
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540 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.
516 페이지 - I begin to discover beauties that were till now imperceptible to me. Every corner of an eye, or turn of a nose or ear, the smallest degree of light or shade on a cheek, or in a dimple, have charms to distract me. I no longer look upon Lord Plausible as ridiculous, for admiring a Lady's fine tip of an ear and pretty elbow (as the Plain Dealer...
31 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...
284 페이지 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...
403 페이지 - se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For here lies the point : if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act : and an act hath three branches ; it is, to act, to do, to perform : argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
336 페이지 - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn."* The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety; it sees all things in one, il piu nell
308 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...
182 페이지 - ... and diminution of the waters is apt to raise in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; the grotesque and ghastly appearance of such a landscape by the light of the moon — objects like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy...
374 페이지 - It is a sackposset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then...
384 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!