Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Volume 1Richard Phillips, 1808 - 623 pagina's |
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Pagina 32
... I find it in the two first of these lines , where a truly grand and magnificent idea is entirely degraded by the meanness of the imagery and expres- sion . In the 6th and 7th verses of the same Psalm 32 THE SUBLIME .
... I find it in the two first of these lines , where a truly grand and magnificent idea is entirely degraded by the meanness of the imagery and expres- sion . In the 6th and 7th verses of the same Psalm 32 THE SUBLIME .
Pagina 56
... sion to a battle is finely supported . I may add a more ludicrous example : " The kettle - drum , whose sullen dub , " Sounds like the hooping of a tub . " - HUD . In all the instances of the ridiculous which I have quoted , you will ...
... sion to a battle is finely supported . I may add a more ludicrous example : " The kettle - drum , whose sullen dub , " Sounds like the hooping of a tub . " - HUD . In all the instances of the ridiculous which I have quoted , you will ...
Pagina 68
... sion . It is well observed by the Abbé Girard , that when a performance grows dull , it is not so much because the ear is tired by the fre- quent repetition of the same sound , as because the mind is fatigued by the frequent occur ...
... sion . It is well observed by the Abbé Girard , that when a performance grows dull , it is not so much because the ear is tired by the fre- quent repetition of the same sound , as because the mind is fatigued by the frequent occur ...
Pagina 78
... sion , to which habit serves to reconcile us , but which are in themselves really ambiguous . Thus we speak of " the Reformation of Lu- ther ; " which , if the circumstance was not well understood , might mean the reformation of the man ...
... sion , to which habit serves to reconcile us , but which are in themselves really ambiguous . Thus we speak of " the Reformation of Lu- ther ; " which , if the circumstance was not well understood , might mean the reformation of the man ...
Pagina 90
... sion or sublimity is the object , this order may be departed from , and a sentence must never conclude with a weak member or a trifling word . As perspicuity demands that enough shall be displayed in the first part of the sen- tence to ...
... sion or sublimity is the object , this order may be departed from , and a sentence must never conclude with a weak member or a trifling word . As perspicuity demands that enough shall be displayed in the first part of the sen- tence to ...
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