Elements of criticism [by H. Home].Bell & Bradfute, A. Constable & Company, and J. Fairbairn, [and others], 1817 - 515 páginas |
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... imitation of nature , but nature it- self embellished . Architecture is productive of originals , and copies not from nature . Sound and motion may in some measure be imitated by music ; but for the most part music , like architecture ...
... imitation of nature , but nature it- self embellished . Architecture is productive of originals , and copies not from nature . Sound and motion may in some measure be imitated by music ; but for the most part music , like architecture ...
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... imitation makes the words concor- dant with the sense . This doctrine may be illus- trated by a familiar example . When we have oc- * Chap . 2. Part 4 . + Ibid . casion to mention the intimate connexion that the soul hath 20 [ CH . 18 ...
... imitation makes the words concor- dant with the sense . This doctrine may be illus- trated by a familiar example . When we have oc- * Chap . 2. Part 4 . + Ibid . casion to mention the intimate connexion that the soul hath 20 [ CH . 18 ...
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... imitation that is distinguished by the name of antithesis . Speaking of Coriolanus soliciting the people to be made consul : With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds . Coriolanus . Had you rather Cæsar were living , and die all ...
... imitation that is distinguished by the name of antithesis . Speaking of Coriolanus soliciting the people to be made consul : With a proud heart he wore his humble weeds . Coriolanus . Had you rather Cæsar were living , and die all ...
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... praises that are not due . I cannot but fancy , however , that this imitation , which passes so currently with other judgments , must at some time or other have stuck a little with your Lordship . SECT . 2. ] 29 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE .
... praises that are not due . I cannot but fancy , however , that this imitation , which passes so currently with other judgments , must at some time or other have stuck a little with your Lordship . SECT . 2. ] 29 BEAUTY OF LANGUAGE .
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... imitation , which passes so currently with others , must at some time or other have stuck a little with your Lordship . A glutton or mere sensualist is as ridiculous as the other two characters . Shaftesbury , Vol . I. p . 129 . They ...
... imitation , which passes so currently with others , must at some time or other have stuck a little with your Lordship . A glutton or mere sensualist is as ridiculous as the other two characters . Shaftesbury , Vol . I. p . 129 . They ...
Términos y frases comunes
abstract accent action admit Æneid agreeable allegory appear beauty blank verse capital Carm Chap circumstance colour comparison composition confined connected connexion couplet Demetrius Phalereus distinguished effect elevation emotions employed Eneid epic poem epic poetry equally expression figure of speech Fingal foregoing garden give hath Hence Henry IV Hexameter Horat idea Iliad imagination imitation impression ject Julius Cæsar kind language less light long syllable manner means melody metaphor mind motion nature never object observed ornaments Paradise Lost passion pause perceive perception period personification pleasure poet principal pronounced proper proportion Quintilian reader reason regularity relation relish resem resemblance respect rhyme Richard II rule scarce scene sect sense sensible short syllables signify simile sion sound spectator Spondees substantive taste termed thee thing thou thought tion tragedy tree unity variety verb verse words writer
Pasajes populares
Página 299 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Página 171 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 230 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Página 210 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Página 163 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Página 182 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Página 316 - 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 249 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Página 244 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Página 298 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.