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Pagina 49
... suppose it only less representa- tive of the kind than the comie ; not that the draught of so much character as it is concerned to represent should not be general : the con- trary of which I have asserted and explained at large ...
... suppose it only less representa- tive of the kind than the comie ; not that the draught of so much character as it is concerned to represent should not be general : the con- trary of which I have asserted and explained at large ...
Pagina 50
... suppose , will be attained most perfectly , by making those cha- racters as universal as possible . For thus the person shewn in the drama being the repre- sentative of all characters of the same kind , furnishes in the highest degree ...
... suppose , will be attained most perfectly , by making those cha- racters as universal as possible . For thus the person shewn in the drama being the repre- sentative of all characters of the same kind , furnishes in the highest degree ...
Pagina 60
... suppose , it was that the ancients had fewer characters in their plays , than the moderns , and those more general ; that is , their dramatic writers were well satisfied with picturing the most usual personages , and in their most ...
... suppose , it was that the ancients had fewer characters in their plays , than the moderns , and those more general ; that is , their dramatic writers were well satisfied with picturing the most usual personages , and in their most ...
Pagina 62
... excedere est : postreṃ nos jam fabula Sumus , Pamphile , senex atque anus . There is nothing , I suppose in these words , which provokes a smile . Yet the humour is strong , as before . In his solicitude to promote 62 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
... excedere est : postreṃ nos jam fabula Sumus , Pamphile , senex atque anus . There is nothing , I suppose in these words , which provokes a smile . Yet the humour is strong , as before . In his solicitude to promote 62 ON THE PROVINCES OF.
Pagina 118
... inspirit bad ones . Now let us take a description of such a scene ; suppose that which Aelian hath left us of the Grecian TEMPE , given from the life and without the heightenings of poetic ornament ; and we shall see 118 A DISCOURSE ON.
... inspirit bad ones . Now let us take a description of such a scene ; suppose that which Aelian hath left us of the Grecian TEMPE , given from the life and without the heightenings of poetic ornament ; and we shall see 118 A DISCOURSE ON.
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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.