Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism: On Poetry and Musick, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning, Svazek 6Hopkins & Earle, 1809 |
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... . CHAPTER IV . 227 An Attempt to account for the Superiority of the Moderns in Ludicrous Writing . . 269 REMARKS ON THE UTILITY OF CLAS- SICAL LEARNING .... ..305 AN ESSAY ON POETRY AND MUSICK , AS THEY AFFECT CONTENTS . vii.
... . CHAPTER IV . 227 An Attempt to account for the Superiority of the Moderns in Ludicrous Writing . . 269 REMARKS ON THE UTILITY OF CLAS- SICAL LEARNING .... ..305 AN ESSAY ON POETRY AND MUSICK , AS THEY AFFECT CONTENTS . vii.
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... the corruption of literature was a consequence of the corruption of manners ; and the manly simplicity of the old writers disappeared , as the nation became effeminate and servile . Horace and Longinus * Chap . I. 9 . AND MUSICK .
... the corruption of literature was a consequence of the corruption of manners ; and the manly simplicity of the old writers disappeared , as the nation became effeminate and servile . Horace and Longinus * Chap . I. 9 . AND MUSICK .
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... writing , as well as by her voice and features ; but I believe it might be truly said , that female conversation , even when learned or philosophical , has , for the most part , an ease and a delicacy , which the greatest masters of ...
... writing , as well as by her voice and features ; but I believe it might be truly said , that female conversation , even when learned or philosophical , has , for the most part , an ease and a delicacy , which the greatest masters of ...
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... writer , and perhaps was never seriously believed to be so . But as he lays claim to inspiration ; and before the whole world pro- fesses to display the most interesting and most marvellous events , to be particularly informed in regard ...
... writer , and perhaps was never seriously believed to be so . But as he lays claim to inspiration ; and before the whole world pro- fesses to display the most interesting and most marvellous events , to be particularly informed in regard ...
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... writer to be ; and such in fact it must be , as long at least as he employs himself in sublime composition . * Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon , to survey The Nile or Ganges rolling his ...
... writer to be ; and such in fact it must be , as long at least as he employs himself in sublime composition . * Who that , from Alpine heights , his labouring eye Shoots round the wide horizon , to survey The Nile or Ganges rolling his ...
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Strana 68 - 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 204 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Strana 68 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; 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.
Strana 214 - Give me leave. Here lies the water; good: here stands the man ; good : if the man go to this water and drown himself, it is, will he, nill he, he goes; mark you that; but if the water come to him and drown him, he drowns not himself: argal, he that is not guilty of his own death shortens not his own life. 2. CLO. But is this law? 1. CLO. Ay, marry, is't; crowner's quest law. 2. CLO. Will you ha
Strana 183 - ... wisdom is a fox, who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homelier, and the coarser coat; and whereof, to a judicious palate...
Strana 178 - For, wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy...
Strana 113 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night : how often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Strana 364 - 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 143 - The sun had long since, in the lap Of Thetis, taken out his nap, And, like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn...
Strana 138 - The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...