Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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Pagina 8
... 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 ; not to re- flect the real face of things , but to illustrate and adorn it ; not to ...
... 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 ; not to re- flect the real face of things , but to illustrate and adorn it ; not to ...
Pagina 11
... sense and imagery it conveys , but by the structure of words , and still more by the harmonious arrangement of them in metrical sounds or numbers , and lastly there being no reason in the nature of the thing itself why these pleasures ...
... sense and imagery it conveys , but by the structure of words , and still more by the harmonious arrangement of them in metrical sounds or numbers , and lastly there being no reason in the nature of the thing itself why these pleasures ...
Pagina 12
... sense of measure and proportion in sounds , which is so natural The hearer's attention is the sooner gained by this means , his entertainment quickened , and his admiration of the per- former's art excited . Men are ambitious of ...
... sense of measure and proportion in sounds , which is so natural The hearer's attention is the sooner gained by this means , his entertainment quickened , and his admiration of the per- former's art excited . Men are ambitious of ...
Pagina 16
... sense , the famous saying of Erato- sthenes , quoted above - that the poet's aim is to please , not to instruct - is to be under- stood : nor does it appear , what reason Strabo could have to take offence at it ; however it might be ...
... sense , the famous saying of Erato- sthenes , quoted above - that the poet's aim is to please , not to instruct - is to be under- stood : nor does it appear , what reason Strabo could have to take offence at it ; however it might be ...
Pagina 20
... sense will acknowledge no work of art but such as is composed according to the laws of its kind . These KINDS , as arbitrary things as we account them ( for I neither forget nor dispute what our best philosophy teaches con- cerning ...
... sense will acknowledge no work of art but such as is composed according to the laws of its kind . These KINDS , as arbitrary things as we account them ( for I neither forget nor dispute what our best philosophy teaches con- cerning ...
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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.