Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Usefulness of Classical Learning. By James Beattie, ...E. and C. Dilly; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1779 - Počet stran: 515 |
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... best means of attaining it .. An art , thus founded on reason , could not fail to be durable . The propriety of the Homeric mode of invention has been acknowledged by the learned in all ages ; every real improvement which particular ...
... best means of attaining it .. An art , thus founded on reason , could not fail to be durable . The propriety of the Homeric mode of invention has been acknowledged by the learned in all ages ; every real improvement which particular ...
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... best reasons . It was pleaded against me , that tafte is capricious , and criticism variable ; and that the rules of Ariftotle's Poetics , being founded in the practice of Sophocles and Homer , ought not to be applied to the poems of ...
... best reasons . It was pleaded against me , that tafte is capricious , and criticism variable ; and that the rules of Ariftotle's Poetics , being founded in the practice of Sophocles and Homer , ought not to be applied to the poems of ...
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... lovelinefs , and makes vice appear the object of contempt and abomina- tion . An intimate acquaintance with the best de- fcriptive poets , Spenfer , Milton , and Thomson , But but above all with the divine Georgic , joined to 30 ON POETRY.
... lovelinefs , and makes vice appear the object of contempt and abomina- tion . An intimate acquaintance with the best de- fcriptive poets , Spenfer , Milton , and Thomson , But but above all with the divine Georgic , joined to 30 ON POETRY.
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... best hiftorians , both ancient and modern . Nor do I blame them for it . By these improved or invented speeches , and by the heightenings thus given to their defcriptions , their work becomes more interesting , and more useful ; nobody ...
... best hiftorians , both ancient and modern . Nor do I blame them for it . By these improved or invented speeches , and by the heightenings thus given to their defcriptions , their work becomes more interesting , and more useful ; nobody ...
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... let them also be affect- " ing : " - for that this is the meaning of the word Compare Hor . lib . 1. fat . 4. vers , 1.— -5 with Ar . Poet .. verf , 281. - 285 . dulcia , dulcia , is admitted by the best interpreters , and AND MUSIC . 47.
... let them also be affect- " ing : " - for that this is the meaning of the word Compare Hor . lib . 1. fat . 4. vers , 1.— -5 with Ar . Poet .. verf , 281. - 285 . dulcia , dulcia , is admitted by the best interpreters , and AND MUSIC . 47.
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abfurd admiration Æneid affections agreeable alfo almoſt alſo ancient arifes beauty becauſe beſt cauſe character Cicero circumſtances compariſon compofition confequently confiftent converfation defcribe defcription defign Dido difplay diftinguiſhed Dryden effential emotions Engliſh Epic expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fancy faſhion fatire feem fenfe fenfibility fentiments fhall fhould fimilar firſt fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpeech ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuitable fuperior fuppofed genius Georgic give Greek harmony hiftory himſelf Homer Hudibras human humour ideas Iliad imitation inftruction interefting itſelf language laughter leaſt lefs Loft ludicrous meaſure mind moft moral moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary numbers obferve object occafion paffage paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry prefent profe purpoſe Quintilian racter raiſe reader reaſon refpect ridiculous ſeems ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtudy ſtyle ſuppoſed tafte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion underſtanding uſe verf verſe Virgil whofe words writing
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Strana 218 - Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
Strana 504 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts: others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Strana 248 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Strana 29 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Strana 13 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
Strana 30 - ... the murmur of the rivulet and in the uproar of the ocean, in the radiance of summer and gloom of winter, in the thunder of heaven and in the whisper of the breeze, he still finds something to rouse or to soothe his imagination, to draw forth his affections, or to employ his understanding.
Strana 414 - Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin^ I think this may very well be accounted for ; laughter implies...
Strana 354 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!
Strana 150 - ... it is very imperfectly, because we know not why: — the singer, by taking up the same air, and applying words to it, immediately translates the oration into our own language; then all uncertainty vanishes, the fancy is filled with determinate ideas...
Strana 127 - When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...