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Pagina 12
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus ...
... effects upon the hearer , may be more rigorously and philosophically considered as a kind of discordia concors ; a combination of dissimilar images , or discovery of occult resemblances in things apparently unlike . Of wit , thus ...
Pagina 13
... effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
... effect is sudden atonishment , and the second rational admiration . Sublimity is produced by aggregation , and littleness by dispersion . Great thoughts are always general , and consist in positions not limited by exceptions , and in ...
Pagina 19
... Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass : Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . COWLEY . COWLEY . Their conceits were sentiments ...
... Effect of a Lover's name upon Glass . My name engrav'd herein Doth contribute my firmness to this glass : Which , ever since that charm , hath been As hard as that which grav'd it was . COWLEY . COWLEY . Their conceits were sentiments ...
Pagina 36
... effect : the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
... effect : the whole system of life , while the theocracy was yet visible , has an appearance so different from all other scenes of human action , that the reader of the Sacred Volume habitually considers it as the peculiar mode of ...
Pagina 39
... effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criticism as epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by ...
... effects of idleness . As the Davideis affords only four books , though intended to consist of twelve , there is no opportunity for such criticism as epic poems commonly supply . The plan of the whole work is very imperfectly shewn by ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Addison admiration afterwards Almanzor ancient appears beauties better blank verse censure character Charles Dryden compositions considered Cowley criticism death defend delight diction diligence dramatic Dryden Duke Earl elegance English English poetry Euripides excellence fancy favour friends genius Georgics heroic honour Hudibras images imagination imitation Jacob Tonson John Dryden Johnson's Lives Juvenal kind King known labour Lady language Latin learning lines Lord Lord Conway Milton mind nature never NIHIL numbers opinion Paradise Lost parliament passions perhaps Philips Pindar play pleasing pleasure poem poet poetical poetry Pope pounds praise preface produced published reader reason relates remarks reputation rhyme satire says seems sentiments shew shewn sometimes Sprat style supposed Syphax thee thing thou thought tion told tragedy translation truth verses versification Virgil virtue Waller Westminster Abbey words write written wrote