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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Strana 44
... most authentic information , seems however to have indulged his fancy not a little in his harangues and descriptions , particularly that of the plague of Athens : And the fame thing has been practifed , with greater la- titude , by Livy ...
... most authentic information , seems however to have indulged his fancy not a little in his harangues and descriptions , particularly that of the plague of Athens : And the fame thing has been practifed , with greater la- titude , by Livy ...
Strana 45
... most flowery orators of antiquity . But the fic- titious part of history , or of story - telling , ought never to take up much room ; and must be highly blameable when it leads into any mistake either of facts or of characters . Now ...
... most flowery orators of antiquity . But the fic- titious part of history , or of story - telling , ought never to take up much room ; and must be highly blameable when it leads into any mistake either of facts or of characters . Now ...
Strana 47
... most part purely ficti- tious ; for if it were to exhibit real events as well as present manners , it would become too personal to be endured by a well - bred audience , and degene- rate into downright abufe ; which appears to have been ...
... most part purely ficti- tious ; for if it were to exhibit real events as well as present manners , it would become too personal to be endured by a well - bred audience , and degene- rate into downright abufe ; which appears to have been ...
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... most perceptible part of a human character . - As , therefore , the politician , in difcuffing the rights of mankind , muft often allude to an imaginary state of nature ; fo the poet who intends to raise admiration , pity , terror , and ...
... most perceptible part of a human character . - As , therefore , the politician , in difcuffing the rights of mankind , muft often allude to an imaginary state of nature ; fo the poet who intends to raise admiration , pity , terror , and ...
Strana 66
... most moving and moft eventful parts of the Æneid are those that describe the effects of unlawful paffion + : - the most It is fomewhat amufing to obferve , what different ideas our poets have entertained of the manner of speaking that ...
... most moving and moft eventful parts of the Æneid are those that describe the effects of unlawful paffion + : - the most It is fomewhat amufing to obferve , what different ideas our poets have entertained of the manner of speaking that ...
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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...