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Pagina 20
... attention from life to nature . They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars . Socrates was rather of opinion , that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil : ὅττι ...
... attention from life to nature . They seem to think that we are placed here to watch the growth of plants or the motions of the stars . Socrates was rather of opinion , that what we had to learn was how to do good and avoid evil : ὅττι ...
Pagina 25
... attention ; and he who told every man that he was equal to his king could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught ...
... attention ; and he who told every man that he was equal to his king could hardly want an audience . That the performance of Salmasius was not dispersed with equal rapidity , or read with equal eagerness , is very credible . He taught ...
Pagina 46
... attention than the end ; and as those that understand it know commonly the beginning best , its rehearsal will seldom be necessary . It is not likely that Milton required any pas- sage to be so much repeated as that his daughter could ...
... attention than the end ; and as those that understand it know commonly the beginning best , its rehearsal will seldom be necessary . It is not likely that Milton required any pas- sage to be so much repeated as that his daughter could ...
Pagina 50
... attention . The dispute between the lady and Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama ; and wants nothing but a brisker reciprocation of objections and replies to invite attention and de- tain it . The songs are ...
... attention . The dispute between the lady and Comus is the most animated and affecting scene of the drama ; and wants nothing but a brisker reciprocation of objections and replies to invite attention and de- tain it . The songs are ...
Pagina 54
... attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds where only ...
... attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility ; reality was a scene too narrow for his mind . He sent his faculties out upon discovery into worlds where only ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 75 - O could I flow like thee, and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme! Though deep, yet clear, though gentle, yet not dull, Strong without rage, without o'er-flowing full.
Pagina 21 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Pagina 134 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Pagina 100 - To move, but doth if th' other do. And, though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans and hearkens after it, And grows erect as that comes home. Such wilt thou be to me, who must Like th
Pagina 185 - Blest above; So when the last and dreadful hour This crumbling pageant shall devour, The trumpet shall be heard on high, The dead shall live, the living die, And Music shall untune the sky!
Pagina 81 - I found everywhere there (though my understanding had little to do with all this); and by degrees with the tinkling of the rhyme and dance of the numbers, so that I think I had read him all over before I was twelve years old, and was thus made a poet as immediately as a child is made an eunuch.
Pagina 29 - Englishmen being far northerly, do not open our mouths in the cold air wide enough to grace a southern tongue; but are observed by all other nations to speak exceeding close and inward; so that to smatter Latin with an English mouth, is as ill a hearing as law French.
Pagina 195 - I am as free as Nature first made man, \ Ere the base laws of servitude began, [• When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
Pagina 19 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boardingschool 3.
Pagina 90 - Nor was the sublime more within their reach than the pathetic, for they never attempted that comprehension and expanse of thought which at once fills the whole mind, and of which the first effect is sudden astonishment, 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 descriptions not descending to minuteness.