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Pagina 7
... doubt , or at least have resolved it , if they had considered that comedy adopts as much of this force and spirit of words , as is consistent with the na- ture and degree of that pleasure , which it pre- tends to give . For the name of ...
... doubt , or at least have resolved it , if they had considered that comedy adopts as much of this force and spirit of words , as is consistent with the na- ture and degree of that pleasure , which it pre- tends to give . For the name of ...
Pagina 16
... doubt ( and especially THE POET , whose honour the great Geographer would assert , in his criticism on Eratosthenes ) frequently instruct us by a true and faithful representation of things ; yet even this instructive air is only assumed ...
... doubt ( and especially THE POET , whose honour the great Geographer would assert , in his criticism on Eratosthenes ) frequently instruct us by a true and faithful representation of things ; yet even this instructive air is only assumed ...
Pagina 34
... both in themselves and in their consequences , most fitted to excite pas sion . The distresses of private and inferior persons will , no doubt , affect us greatly ; and # we may give the name of tragedies , if we 34 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
... both in themselves and in their consequences , most fitted to excite pas sion . The distresses of private and inferior persons will , no doubt , affect us greatly ; and # we may give the name of tragedies , if we 34 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
Pagina 86
... doubt at all on the matter . The tragedy on low life , and comedy on high life , were refinements al- together unknown to them . What then hath occasioned this revolution of taste amongst us ? Principally , I conceive , these three ...
... doubt at all on the matter . The tragedy on low life , and comedy on high life , were refinements al- together unknown to them . What then hath occasioned this revolution of taste amongst us ? Principally , I conceive , these three ...
Pagina 87
... doubt , be the subject of comic representation . Why then are not these fit personages for comedy ? The reason has been given . They want dramatic manners . Or , if they did not , their elevated and separate estate makes the generality ...
... doubt , be the subject of comic representation . Why then are not these fit personages for comedy ? The reason has been given . They want dramatic manners . Or , if they did not , their elevated and separate estate makes the generality ...
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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.