Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 486 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 100
Página 13
... give it a fair trial , is to draw it out of its obscurity , and to state it in a clear light , as follows : " No subject can be perceived unless it act upon the mind , but no distant subject can act upon the mind , because no being can ...
... give it a fair trial , is to draw it out of its obscurity , and to state it in a clear light , as follows : " No subject can be perceived unless it act upon the mind , but no distant subject can act upon the mind , because no being can ...
Página 22
... give a name to these individuals considered as thus connected , which name , by gathering them together into one class , serves to express the whole of these individuals as distinct from others . Thus the word animal serves to denote ...
... give a name to these individuals considered as thus connected , which name , by gathering them together into one class , serves to express the whole of these individuals as distinct from others . Thus the word animal serves to denote ...
Página 25
... give pleasure to the [ " Now this " ( says Dr. Mark Hopkins ) " is precisely the use , and all the use that inany make of the fine arts , and I may add , to some extent of the beauties of nature too . How many wealthy sensualists are ...
... give pleasure to the [ " Now this " ( says Dr. Mark Hopkins ) " is precisely the use , and all the use that inany make of the fine arts , and I may add , to some extent of the beauties of nature too . How many wealthy sensualists are ...
Página 28
... give him pain . On the other hand , a man void of taste , upon whom even striking beauties make but a faint impression , indulges pride or envy without control , and loves to brood over errors and blemishes . In the next place , ( 5 ) ...
... give him pain . On the other hand , a man void of taste , upon whom even striking beauties make but a faint impression , indulges pride or envy without control , and loves to brood over errors and blemishes . In the next place , ( 5 ) ...
Página 29
... gives many rules ; but can discover no better founda- tion for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and ... give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will . If in writing ...
... gives many rules ; but can discover no better founda- tion for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and ... give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will . If in writing ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
action agreeable appear beauty blank verse burlesque Cæsar chapter circumstance colors connected degree dignity disagreeable distinguished distress effect elevation emotion raised epic poem epic poetry example expression external signs Falstaff feeling figure figure of speech final cause garden give grandeur gratification habit hath Hence Henry IV Hexameter Hudibras human ideas Iliad imagination impression instances Julius Cæsar kind language less Lord Kames manner means melody metaphor mind motion nature never objects of sight observation occasion ornaments Othello pain Paradise Lost passion pause peculiar perceive perceptions person pleasant emotion pleasure poem poetry present produceth proper proportion propriety qualities reason regularity relation relish remarkable resemblance respect rhyme Richard II ridicule rule scarce sense sensible sentiments Shakspeare simile sound spectator sublime syllables taste termed thee things thou thought tion tone uniformity variety verse words writer
Pasajes populares
Página 59 - 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...
Página 261 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules : within a month ? Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing in her galled eyes, She married.
Página 413 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Página 411 - 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 345 - The current, that with gentle murmur glides, Thou know'st, being stopp'd, impatiently doth rage ; But, when his fair course is not hindered, He makes sweet music with the enamel'd stones, Giving a gentle kiss to every sedge He overtaketh in his pilgrimage ; And so by many winding nooks he strays, With willing sport, to the wild ocean...
Página 33 - Keech, the butcher's wife, come in then and call me gossip Quickly ? coming in to borrow a mess of vinegar ; telling us she had a good dish of prawns ; whereby thou didst desire to eat some, whereby I told thee they were ill for a green wound...
Página 411 - I thought, that all things had been savage here ; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment : But whate'er you are> That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time...
Página 154 - O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head, As is a winged messenger of heaven Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him, When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Página 302 - Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar: When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow : Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 461 - 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 Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...