Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - English language |
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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... poetical liberty which does not fuit the gravity of hiftory , throughout which an air of the ftricteft truth fhould always reign . Orations may be an embellishment to History ; fuch might alfo Poetical Compofitions be , intro- duced ...
... poetical liberty which does not fuit the gravity of hiftory , throughout which an air of the ftricteft truth fhould always reign . Orations may be an embellishment to History ; fuch might alfo Poetical Compofitions be , intro- duced ...
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... Poetical Compofition . Before entering on the confideration of any of its particular kinds , I defign this Lecture as an Introduction to the fubject of Poetry in general ; wherein I fhall treat of its nature , give an ac- count of its ...
... Poetical Compofition . Before entering on the confideration of any of its particular kinds , I defign this Lecture as an Introduction to the fubject of Poetry in general ; wherein I fhall treat of its nature , give an ac- count of its ...
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Hugh Blair. 79 XXXVIII . fiction may have a great fhare in many Poetical LECT Compofitions , yet many fubjects of Poetry may not be feigned ; as where the Poet defcribes objects which actually exist , or pours forth the real fentiments ...
Hugh Blair. 79 XXXVIII . fiction may have a great fhare in many Poetical LECT Compofitions , yet many fubjects of Poetry may not be feigned ; as where the Poet defcribes objects which actually exist , or pours forth the real fentiments ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.