Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volumen3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
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... incidents , and retains fomewhat of the amufing manner of the ancient poetical hiftorians . But Herodotus wrote to the Imagination , Thucydides writes , to the Understanding . He was a grave re- flecting man , well acquainted with human ...
... incidents , and retains fomewhat of the amufing manner of the ancient poetical hiftorians . But Herodotus wrote to the Imagination , Thucydides writes , to the Understanding . He was a grave re- flecting man , well acquainted with human ...
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... incidents . It is expected of him , that he is to give the pri- vate , as well as the public life , of the perfon whofe actions he records ; nay , it is from private life , from familiar , domeftic , and feemingly trivial occurrences ...
... incidents . It is expected of him , that he is to give the pri- vate , as well as the public life , of the perfon whofe actions he records ; nay , it is from private life , from familiar , domeftic , and feemingly trivial occurrences ...
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... incidents of the day , and the news of the town ; and they are overloaded with extravagant compliments , and expreffions of fondness , to her favourite daughter ; but withal , they fhow fuch perpetual sprightliness , they contain fuch ...
... incidents of the day , and the news of the town ; and they are overloaded with extravagant compliments , and expreffions of fondness , to her favourite daughter ; but withal , they fhow fuch perpetual sprightliness , they contain fuch ...
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... incidents to the winding up of the whole , deferve much praife . The moft moral of all our Novel Writers is Richardfon , the Author of Clariffa , a writer of excellent intentions , and of very confiderable capacity and genius ; did he ...
... incidents to the winding up of the whole , deferve much praife . The moft moral of all our Novel Writers is Richardfon , the Author of Clariffa , a writer of excellent intentions , and of very confiderable capacity and genius ; did he ...
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... incidents , directed the Poet's ftrain . In the Progrefs of Society and Arts , they began to affume thofe different regu- lar forms , and to be distinguished by thofe dif- ferent names under which we now know them . But in the first ...
... incidents , directed the Poet's ftrain . In the Progrefs of Society and Arts , they began to affume thofe different regu- lar forms , and to be distinguished by thofe dif- ferent names under which we now know them . But in the first ...
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Página 321 - 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 150 - 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 153 - 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.
Página 183 - That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
Página 157 - 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 322 - 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 148 - 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 145 - 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 3 - ... universal taste of mankind, proved and tried throughout the succession of so many ages. Imperfections in their works he may indeed point out; passages that are faulty he may show; for where is the human work that is perfect?
Página 115 - The fprightly Sylvia trips along the green, " She runs, but hopes fhe does not run unfeen ; " While a kind glance at her purfuer flies, " How much at variance are her feet and eyes !" There is nothing the writers of this kind of poetry are fonder of than defcriptions of paftoral Prefents.