Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1809 |
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... poetical fire and original genius , Milton and Shakespeare are inferior to no Poets in any age . IT is proper to obferve , that there were fome circumstances in antient times very favourable to those uncommon efforts of genius which ...
... poetical fire and original genius , Milton and Shakespeare are inferior to no Poets in any age . IT is proper to obferve , that there were fome circumstances in antient times very favourable to those uncommon efforts of genius which ...
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... poetical hiftorians . But Herodotus wrote to the Imagination , Thucydides writes to the Understanding . He was a grave re- flecting man , well acquainted with human life ; and the melan- choly events and catastrophes , which he records ...
... poetical hiftorians . But Herodotus wrote to the Imagination , Thucydides writes to the Understanding . He was a grave re- flecting man , well acquainted with human life ; and the melan- choly events and catastrophes , which he records ...
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... poetical liberty which does not fuit the gravity of hiftory , throughout which an air of the stricteft truth fhould always reign . Ora- tions may be an embellishment to Hiftory ; fuch might alfo Poetical Compofitions be , introduced ...
... poetical liberty which does not fuit the gravity of hiftory , throughout which an air of the stricteft truth fhould always reign . Ora- tions may be an embellishment to Hiftory ; fuch might alfo Poetical Compofitions be , introduced ...
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... Poetical Compofition . Before entering on the confideration of any of its particu- lar kinds , I defign this Lecture as an Introduction to the fubject of Poetry in general ; wherein I fhall treat of its nature , give an account of its ...
... Poetical Compofition . Before entering on the confideration of any of its particu- lar kinds , I defign this Lecture as an Introduction to the fubject of Poetry in general ; wherein I fhall treat of its nature , give an account of its ...
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Hugh Blair. XXXVIII . LECT . have a great fhare in many Poetical Compofitions , yet many subjects of Poetry may not be feigned ; as where the Poet defcribes objects which actually exift , or pours forth the real fentiments of his own ...
Hugh Blair. XXXVIII . LECT . have a great fhare in many Poetical Compofitions , yet many subjects of Poetry may not be feigned ; as where the Poet defcribes objects which actually exift , or pours forth the real fentiments of his own ...
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action Æneid againſt alfo antient appears arifes Author beautiful cenfure characters Chorus circumftances Comedy compofed Compofition confiderable confiftent converfation courſe defcribed defcription diftinct diſplay diſtinguiſhed elegant Engliſh Epic Poem Epic Poetry Epiſodes eſpecially Euripides expreffion faid fame fatire fcenes feems fentiments feveral fhall fhort fhould fimple firft firſt fituations fome fometimes fpecies fpirit ftrain ftrength fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuited fyllables genius greateſt Greek Hero Hiftorian higheſt himſelf Hiſtory Homer Iliad imagination impreffion inftance inftruction intereſting itſelf juſt kind laft laſt LECT lefs Lyric Poetry manner meaſure modern moft moral moſt Mufic muft muſt narration nature neceffary obfervations objects occafions paffages paffed paffion Paftoral perfonages perfons Philofopher pleaſe pleaſure Poet Poetical poffeffes prefent Profe racters raiſed reaſon refpect render rife ſcenes ſome Sophocles ſtate ſtrong ſtudy Style taſte thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe Thucydides tion Tragedy unity uſeful Verfe Verfification Verſe Virgil Voltaire Writing XXXVI
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Página 154 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
Página 162 - Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me!
Página 326 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 153 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius ; he looks round on nature and on life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet : the eye that distinguishes, in...
Página 139 - E'en in this early dawning of the year, Produce the plough, and yoke the sturdy steer, And goad him till he groans beneath his toil, Till the bright share is buried in the soil.
Página 327 - Admirable scenes and passages, without number, there are in his Plays ; passages beyond what are to be found in any other Dramatic Writer; but there is hardly any one of his Plays which can be called altogether a good one, or which can be read with uninterrupted pleasure from beginning to end. Besides...
Página 149 - But a true poet makes us imagine that we see it before our eyes : he catches the distinguishing features ; he gives it the colours of life and reality ; he places it in such a light that a painter could copy after him.
Página 266 - He seems to have been well acquainted with his own genius, and to know what it was that nature had bestowed upon him more bountifully than upon others; the power of displaying the vast, illuminating the splendid, enforcing the awful, darkening the gloomy, and aggravating the dreadful...
Página 153 - His descriptions of extended scenes and general effects, bring before us the whole magnificence of Nature, whether pleasing or dreadful. The gaiety of Spring, the splendour of Summer, the tranquillity of Autumn, and the horror of Winter, take in their turns possession of the mind.
Página 158 - Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon : look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.