Elements of Criticism, Volumen1J. Thompson, 1819 |
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... become of greater importance than is generally imagined . A flourishing commerce begets opulence ; and opu; lence ... becomes fashionable ; and , infecting all ranks , extinguishes the amor patria , and every spark of public spirit ...
... become of greater importance than is generally imagined . A flourishing commerce begets opulence ; and opu; lence ... becomes fashionable ; and , infecting all ranks , extinguishes the amor patria , and every spark of public spirit ...
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... become a laudable entertainment . They are not , however , set on a level with the purely intellectual ; being no less inferior in dignity to intellectual pleasures , than superior to the organic or corporeal : they indeed resemble the ...
... become a laudable entertainment . They are not , however , set on a level with the purely intellectual ; being no less inferior in dignity to intellectual pleasures , than superior to the organic or corporeal : they indeed resemble the ...
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... becomes painful by over, straining the mind : cessation from such exercise gives not instant relief ; it is necessary that the void be filled with some amusement , gently relaxing the spirits ; * organic pleasure , which hath no relish ...
... becomes painful by over, straining the mind : cessation from such exercise gives not instant relief ; it is necessary that the void be filled with some amusement , gently relaxing the spirits ; * organic pleasure , which hath no relish ...
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... become a rational science ; and , like morals , may be cultivated to a high degree of refinement . Manifold are the advantages of criticism , when thus studied as a rational science . In the first place a thorough acquaintance with the ...
... become a rational science ; and , like morals , may be cultivated to a high degree of refinement . Manifold are the advantages of criticism , when thus studied as a rational science . In the first place a thorough acquaintance with the ...
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... becomes a subject of thought , it commonly suggests many of its connexions : among these a choice is afforded ; we can insist upon one , rejecting others ; and sometimes we insist on what is commonly held the slighter connexion . Where ...
... becomes a subject of thought , it commonly suggests many of its connexions : among these a choice is afforded ; we can insist upon one , rejecting others ; and sometimes we insist on what is commonly held the slighter connexion . Where ...
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Página 186 - 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 239 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Página 79 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Página 74 - Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: — Look, in this place, ran Cassius* dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd And, as he pluck'd his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar...
Página 411 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Página 405 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Página 406 - Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Página 236 - It must not be : if Cassio do remain, ' He hath a daily beauty in his life, That makes me ugly ; and, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him ; there stand I in much peril : No, he must die : — But so, I hear him coming.
Página 400 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Página 401 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...