Elements of CriticismA.S. Barnes & Company, 1855 - 486 páginas |
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... greater importance than at first view may appear ; for it strikes at the root of a celebrated doctrine , which for more than two thousand years has misled many philosophers . This doctrine , as delivered by Aristotle , is in substance ...
... greater importance than at first view may appear ; for it strikes at the root of a celebrated doctrine , which for more than two thousand years has misled many philosophers . This doctrine , as delivered by Aristotle , is in substance ...
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... greater perfection than to express clear ideas : hence it is , that poets and orators , who are extremely successful in describing objects of sight , find objects of the other senses too faint and obscure for language . An idea thus ...
... greater perfection than to express clear ideas : hence it is , that poets and orators , who are extremely successful in describing objects of sight , find objects of the other senses too faint and obscure for language . An idea thus ...
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... greater or less inequality or difference is less agreeable . 28. Order regards various particulars . First , in tracing or sur- veying objects , we are directed by a sense of order : we perceive it to be more orderly , that we should ...
... greater or less inequality or difference is less agreeable . 28. Order regards various particulars . First , in tracing or sur- veying objects , we are directed by a sense of order : we perceive it to be more orderly , that we should ...
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... greater wickedness , of more surprising events , than ever in fact existed and in communicating such ideas by words , painting , sculpture , & c . , the influence of the imagination is no less extensive than great . 30. In the nature of ...
... greater wickedness , of more surprising events , than ever in fact existed and in communicating such ideas by words , painting , sculpture , & c . , the influence of the imagination is no less extensive than great . 30. In the nature of ...
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... greater : Lear . Thou think'st ' tis much , that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin : so ' tis to thee ; But where the greater malady is fix'd , The lesser is scarce felt . Thou'dst shun a bear ; But if thy flight lay toward ...
... greater : Lear . Thou think'st ' tis much , that this contentious storm Invades us to the skin : so ' tis to thee ; But where the greater malady is fix'd , The lesser is scarce felt . Thou'dst shun a bear ; But if thy flight lay toward ...
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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...