Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Svazek 2William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - Počet stran: 555 |
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... himself by dif claiming the authority of Sir Ifaac Newton . The characters that distinguish poetry from other works of literature , belong either to the SUBJECT , or to the LANGUAGE : fo that this discourse naturally refolves itself ...
... himself by dif claiming the authority of Sir Ifaac Newton . The characters that distinguish poetry from other works of literature , belong either to the SUBJECT , or to the LANGUAGE : fo that this discourse naturally refolves itself ...
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... himself so far , as to give us ground to fufpect him even of momentary impiety or hardheartedness , we charge him in the fame breath with want of confcience and want of tafte ; the former be- ing generally , as well as juftly , supposed ...
... himself so far , as to give us ground to fufpect him even of momentary impiety or hardheartedness , we charge him in the fame breath with want of confcience and want of tafte ; the former be- ing generally , as well as juftly , supposed ...
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... himself not excepted . Till Dryden ap- peared , none of our writers in rhime of the last century approached in any measure to the harmony of Fairfax and Spenfer . Of Waller it can only be faid , that he is not harsh , of Denham and ...
... himself not excepted . Till Dryden ap- peared , none of our writers in rhime of the last century approached in any measure to the harmony of Fairfax and Spenfer . Of Waller it can only be faid , that he is not harsh , of Denham and ...
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... . T O exhibit real nature is the bufinefs of the hiftorian ; who , if he were strictly to confine himself to his own fphere , would never record even the minutest circumstance of any speech , never 46 Part I. ON POETRY.
... . T O exhibit real nature is the bufinefs of the hiftorian ; who , if he were strictly to confine himself to his own fphere , would never record even the minutest circumstance of any speech , never 46 Part I. ON POETRY.
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... himself , who began his history when that war began which he re- cords , and who fet down every event foon after it happened , according to the most au- thentic information , feems however to have indulged his fancy not a little in his ...
... himself , who began his history when that war began which he re- cords , and who fet down every event foon after it happened , according to the most au- thentic information , feems however to have indulged his fancy not a little in his ...
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Strana 182 - ... and diminution of the waters is apt to raise in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; the grotesque and ghastly appearance of such a landscape by the light of the moon — objects like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy...
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