Elements of CriticismConner & Cooke, 1833 - 504 páginas |
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... Nature hath afforded for computing Time and Space , Part 6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes , Part 7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions , Chap . III . Beauty , • Chap . IV . Grandeur and Sublimity , Chap ...
... Nature hath afforded for computing Time and Space , Part 6. Resemblance of Emotions to their Causes , Part 7. Final Causes of the more frequent Emotions and Passions , Chap . III . Beauty , • Chap . IV . Grandeur and Sublimity , Chap ...
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... nature offers it to us , in order to advance our happiness ; and it is sufficient , that he has enabled us to carry it on in a natural course . Nor has he made our task either disagree . able or difficult : on the contrary , the ...
... nature offers it to us , in order to advance our happiness ; and it is sufficient , that he has enabled us to carry it on in a natural course . Nor has he made our task either disagree . able or difficult : on the contrary , the ...
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... nature . could not surely be his opinion , that these poets , however eminent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will . If in wri- ting they followed ...
... nature . could not surely be his opinion , that these poets , however eminent for genius , were entitled to give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will . If in wri- ting they followed ...
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... natural operations ; for it always directs our ideas in the order of nature . Thinking upon a body in motion , we follow its natural course : the mind falls with a heavy body , descends with a river , and ascends with flame and smoke ...
... natural operations ; for it always directs our ideas in the order of nature . Thinking upon a body in motion , we follow its natural course : the mind falls with a heavy body , descends with a river , and ascends with flame and smoke ...
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... nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva- tion : and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is ...
... nature , however , has still a greater influence than eleva- tion : and therefore , the pleasure of falling with rain , and descending gradually with a river , prevails over that of mounting upward . But where the course of nature is ...
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Página 143 - All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens : Teach thy necessity to reason thus ; There is no virtue like necessity.
Página 371 - And now go to ; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up, And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...
Página 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond; And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, "I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
Página 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 445 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Página 405 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Página 226 - I better brook the loss of brittle life Than those proud titles thou hast won of me ; They wound my thoughts worse than thy sword my flesh : But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool ; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Página 388 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 377 - Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep ; Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast ;— Lady M.