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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... use of it in thofe paffages where it is fuppofed by fome to be un- neceffary . And in these , it often serves to fet off a fimple fact with allegorical decoration , and , of course , by interesting us more in the fable , to impress upon ...
... use of it in thofe paffages where it is fuppofed by fome to be un- neceffary . And in these , it often serves to fet off a fimple fact with allegorical decoration , and , of course , by interesting us more in the fable , to impress upon ...
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... use of poifon . To say of any thing , that it is contrary to Nature , denotes cenfure and difguft on the part of the Speaker ; as the epithet natural intimates an agree able quality , and feems for the most part to imply , that a thing ...
... use of poifon . To say of any thing , that it is contrary to Nature , denotes cenfure and difguft on the part of the Speaker ; as the epithet natural intimates an agree able quality , and feems for the most part to imply , that a thing ...
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... use warm food and the milk of cows as a delicacy : though these luxuries , fuppofed attainable by a nation of horses , could contribute no more to their perfection , than brandy and imprisonment would to that of a man .. -Again , did ...
... use warm food and the milk of cows as a delicacy : though these luxuries , fuppofed attainable by a nation of horses , could contribute no more to their perfection , than brandy and imprisonment would to that of a man .. -Again , did ...
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... use a layman , or other visible figure , to direct their hand and re- gulate their fancy . Homer himself founds his two poems on authentic tradition ; and Tragic as well as Epic poets have followed the example . The writers of romance ...
... use a layman , or other visible figure , to direct their hand and re- gulate their fancy . Homer himself founds his two poems on authentic tradition ; and Tragic as well as Epic poets have followed the example . The writers of romance ...
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... use words , and meditate on things , that are fuitable to it , and tend to encourage it . If a man were to write a letter when he is very angry , there would probably be fomething of vehemence or bitterness in the ftyle , even though ...
... use words , and meditate on things , that are fuitable to it , and tend to encourage it . If a man were to write a letter when he is very angry , there would probably be fomething of vehemence or bitterness in the ftyle , even though ...
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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...