Elements of CriticismHuntington and Savage, 1842 - 504 pagina's |
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Pagina 12
... short duration : when prolonged , they lose their relish ; when indulged to excess , they beget satiety and disgust : and , to restore a proper tone of mind , nothing can be more happily contrived than the exhilarating pleasures of the ...
... short duration : when prolonged , they lose their relish ; when indulged to excess , they beget satiety and disgust : and , to restore a proper tone of mind , nothing can be more happily contrived than the exhilarating pleasures of the ...
Pagina 19
... short - It should be introduced where the subject relents . A MAN , while awake , is conscious of a continued train of percep- tions and ideas passing in his mind . It requires no activity on his part to carry on the train ; nor can he ...
... short - It should be introduced where the subject relents . A MAN , while awake , is conscious of a continued train of percep- tions and ideas passing in his mind . It requires no activity on his part to carry on the train ; nor can he ...
Pagina 23
... short here ; for till principles be un- folded , I can promise no entertainment to those who shun thinking . But I flatter myself with a different bent in the generality of readers : some few , I imagine , will relish the abstract part ...
... short here ; for till principles be un- folded , I can promise no entertainment to those who shun thinking . But I flatter myself with a different bent in the generality of readers : some few , I imagine , will relish the abstract part ...
Pagina 25
... short of the eye in liveliness of impression , that in a description connection ought to be carefully studied ; for new objects introduced in description are made more or less welcome in proportion to the degree of their connection with ...
... short of the eye in liveliness of impression , that in a description connection ought to be carefully studied ; for new objects introduced in description are made more or less welcome in proportion to the degree of their connection with ...
Pagina 28
... short hint about the causes of passion and emotion , leads to a more extensive view of the subject . Such is our nature , that upon perceiving certain external objects , we are instantaneously conscious of pleasure or pain : a gently ...
... short hint about the causes of passion and emotion , leads to a more extensive view of the subject . Such is our nature , that upon perceiving certain external objects , we are instantaneously conscious of pleasure or pain : a gently ...
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Pagina 332 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pagina 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Pagina 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Pagina 142 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pagina 395 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Pagina 445 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Pagina 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pagina 329 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Pagina 84 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Pagina 242 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two...