The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series Edited with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volumen16J. Johnson, 1810 - 526 páginas |
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... poetry superior to the fable , and the colouring of the particular parts more excellent than the general plan of the whole . Of all the great epic poems which have been the admiration of mankind , the Jerusalem of Tasso alone would make ...
... poetry superior to the fable , and the colouring of the particular parts more excellent than the general plan of the whole . Of all the great epic poems which have been the admiration of mankind , the Jerusalem of Tasso alone would make ...
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... epic poetry , at least all the marvellous part of it , must be entirely abandoned . The Christian religion , for many reasons , is unfit for the fabulous ornaments of poetry : the introduction of allegory , after the manner of Voltaire ...
... epic poetry , at least all the marvellous part of it , must be entirely abandoned . The Christian religion , for many reasons , is unfit for the fabulous ornaments of poetry : the introduction of allegory , after the manner of Voltaire ...
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... poetry , the epic ; without that correctness of judgment , and previous discipline in the practice of harmonious numbers , which can alone ensure success in an age of polish and refinement . It has accordingly been mea- sured by that ...
... poetry , the epic ; without that correctness of judgment , and previous discipline in the practice of harmonious numbers , which can alone ensure success in an age of polish and refinement . It has accordingly been mea- sured by that ...
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... poets , and that by judges of all sorts , competent and incompetent ; I shall attempt to answer some objections that may be made to the following performance , by persons not sufficiently acquainted with epic poetry , and the rules upon ...
... poets , and that by judges of all sorts , competent and incompetent ; I shall attempt to answer some objections that may be made to the following performance , by persons not sufficiently acquainted with epic poetry , and the rules upon ...
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... epic poetry is to extend our ideas of human perfection , or , as the critics express it , to excite admiration . In order to do this in any tolerable degree , characters must be magnified , and accommodated rather to our notions of heroic ...
... epic poetry is to extend our ideas of human perfection , or , as the critics express it , to excite admiration . In order to do this in any tolerable degree , characters must be magnified , and accommodated rather to our notions of heroic ...
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Términos y frases comunes
address'd Adrastus appear'd Argive arms atque Atrides bands bard breast charms chief Cleon Creon crown'd Deiphobus descend Diomed Diomede dire divine dread e'er epic epic poetry Epigoniad ev'n ev'ry eyes fair falchion fame fate fear fight fix'd flame fury gen'rous glory goddess gods grace grief hand heart Heav'n hero hero's honour host immortal Jove king light lofty lord maid malè martial merit mighty mighty hand mind monarch mortal Muse ne'er night numbers nymph o'er Pallas Paul Whitehead Philoctetes plain poem poet pow'r praise princes Pylian quæ rage reddit reply'd resign'd rise round sacred seem'd shade shining shore shou'd sire skies soon soul sov'reign stand stood streams swain sway sweet Theban Thebes thee Theseus thou thro tibi toil tow'rs trembling turn'd Tydeus Tydides Ulysses valiant vengeance vex'd virtue voice warriors WILLIAM WILKIE winds wings wou'd youth
Pasajes populares
Página 449 - Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land.
Página 448 - The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 79 - Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
Página 66 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Página 83 - A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain. And drinking largely sobers us again.
Página 448 - Around my fire an evening group to draw, And tell of all I felt and all I saw ; And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue, Pants to the place from whence at first she flew — I still had hopes — my long vexations past, Here to return, and die at home at last.
Página 445 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms...
Página 448 - And still as each repeated pleasure tired, Succeeding sports the mirthful band inspired ; The dancing pair that simply sought renown, By holding out to tire each other down ; The swain mistrustless of his smutted face, While secret laughter titter'd round the place ; The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove...
Página 444 - Whatever blooms in torrid tracts appear, Whose bright succession decks the varied year; Whatever sweets salute the northern sky With vernal lives, that blossom but to die; These, here disporting, own the kindred soil, Nor ask luxuriance from the planter's toil; While sea-born gales their gelid wings expand To winnow fragrance round the smiling land.
Página 66 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
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Prose in the Age of Poets: Romanticism and Biographical Narrative from ... Annette Wheeler Cafarelli Vista de fragmentos - 1990 |