Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, strand., 1811 |
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Pagina 10
... Turns them to shape , and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name . When the received system of manners or religion in any country , happens to be so con- stituted as to suit itself in some degree to this extravagant turn of ...
... Turns them to shape , and gives to aery nothing A local habitation and a name . When the received system of manners or religion in any country , happens to be so con- stituted as to suit itself in some degree to this extravagant turn of ...
Pagina 34
... turning so constantly as it does , on love subjects ; the effect of this practice is , that , excepting only the rank of the actors ( which indeed , as will be seen presently , is of considerable importance ) , the rest is below the ...
... turning so constantly as it does , on love subjects ; the effect of this practice is , that , excepting only the rank of the actors ( which indeed , as will be seen presently , is of considerable importance ) , the rest is below the ...
Pagina 37
... turns and windings of our nature , makes us attend to these pictures of human life with an incredible curiosity . And herein the proper entertainment , which comic repre- sentation , as such , administers to the mind , consists . By turning ...
... turns and windings of our nature , makes us attend to these pictures of human life with an incredible curiosity . And herein the proper entertainment , which comic repre- sentation , as such , administers to the mind , consists . By turning ...
Pagina 39
... turns and " revolutions ; but characters have no oppor- " tunity even of being called out and displaying themselves . For the actors of all characters " succeed and are embarrassed alike , when the " instruments for carrying on designs ...
... turns and " revolutions ; but characters have no oppor- " tunity even of being called out and displaying themselves . For the actors of all characters " succeed and are embarrassed alike , when the " instruments for carrying on designs ...
Pagina 40
... turn us aside from contemplating the imitation itself . And , 3. For a like cause , comedy confines its views to the characters of private and inferior persons . For the truth of character , which is the spring of humour , being ...
... turn us aside from contemplating the imitation itself . And , 3. For a like cause , comedy confines its views to the characters of private and inferior persons . For the truth of character , which is the spring of humour , being ...
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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.