Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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Pagina 8
... carry with them , are found most delightful to us , but also that FICTION , in the largest sense of the word , is essential to poetry . For its pur- pose is , not to delineate truth simply , but to present it in the most taking forms ...
... carry with them , are found most delightful to us , but also that FICTION , in the largest sense of the word , is essential to poetry . For its pur- pose is , not to delineate truth simply , but to present it in the most taking forms ...
Pagina 14
... contributes to produce that end most perfectly , all circumstances taken into the account , must be thought of the nature or essence of the kind . But without carrying matters so far , let us confine 14 ON THE IDEA OF.
... contributes to produce that end most perfectly , all circumstances taken into the account , must be thought of the nature or essence of the kind . But without carrying matters so far , let us confine 14 ON THE IDEA OF.
Pagina 15
Richard Hurd. But without carrying matters so far , let us confine our attention to metre , or what we call verse . This must be essential to every work bearing the name of poem , not , because we are only accustomed to call works ...
Richard Hurd. But without carrying matters so far , let us confine our attention to metre , or what we call verse . This must be essential to every work bearing the name of poem , not , because we are only accustomed to call works ...
Pagina 33
... carried on with truth and probability . Hence every thing passing before us , as we are accustomed to see it in real life , we enter more warmly into their interests , as forgetting , that we are attentive . to a fictitious scene . And ...
... carried on with truth and probability . Hence every thing passing before us , as we are accustomed to see it in real life , we enter more warmly into their interests , as forgetting , that we are attentive . to a fictitious scene . And ...
Pagina 39
... carrying on designs are only perplexed apartments , dark entries , dis- 56 sc guised habits , and ladders of ropes . The " comic plot is , and must , indeed , be carried 66 $ 6 on by deceipt . The Spanish scene does it by deceiving the ...
... carrying on designs are only perplexed apartments , dark entries , dis- 56 sc guised habits , and ladders of ropes . The " comic plot is , and must , indeed , be carried 66 $ 6 on by deceipt . The Spanish scene does it by deceiving the ...
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Pagina 256 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Pagina 255 - His honour and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations ; he shall flourish, And, like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him ; our children's children Shall see this and bless heaven.
Pagina 256 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Pagina 133 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Pagina 256 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Pagina 286 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 256 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Pagina 256 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Pagina 278 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Pagina 256 - Superior beings, when of late they saw A mortal man unfold all nature's law, Admir'd such wisdom in an earthly shape, And shew'da Newton as we shew an ape.