Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, Volume 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 - English language |
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... things I have afterwards to deliver , concerning different kinds of Composition . Irisa remarkable phænomenon , and one which has often employed the fpeculations of curious men , that Writers and Artifts , moft diftinguished for their ...
... things I have afterwards to deliver , concerning different kinds of Composition . Irisa remarkable phænomenon , and one which has often employed the fpeculations of curious men , that Writers and Artifts , moft diftinguished for their ...
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... thing . I have opened the general princíple which must go far in inftituting a fair compa- rifon between them and the Moderns . What- ever fuperiority the Antients may have had in point of genius , yet in all arts , where the natu- ral ...
... thing . I have opened the general princíple which must go far in inftituting a fair compa- rifon between them and the Moderns . What- ever fuperiority the Antients may have had in point of genius , yet in all arts , where the natu- ral ...
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... thing which is Modern , and that blind veneration for all that has been written in Greek or Latin , which belongs only to pedants . Among the Greek and Roman Authors , fome affuredly de- ferve much higher regard than others ; nay , fome ...
... thing which is Modern , and that blind veneration for all that has been written in Greek or Latin , which belongs only to pedants . Among the Greek and Roman Authors , fome affuredly de- ferve much higher regard than others ; nay , fome ...
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... thing that is one , whole and entire . It is in- conceivable how great an effect this , when hap- pily executed , has upon a Reader , and it is fur- prifing that fome able Writers of Hiftory have not attended to it more . Whether ...
... thing that is one , whole and entire . It is in- conceivable how great an effect this , when hap- pily executed , has upon a Reader , and it is fur- prifing that fome able Writers of Hiftory have not attended to it more . Whether ...
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... fprings the actions and events which he records . Two things are especially neceffary for his doing this fuccessfully ; a thorough acquaintance with human nature , and political 1 XXXVI . political knowledge , or acquaintance with LECT.
... fprings the actions and events which he records . Two things are especially neceffary for his doing this fuccessfully ; a thorough acquaintance with human nature , and political 1 XXXVI . political knowledge , or acquaintance with LECT.
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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.