 | Virgil, Christopher Pitt, Joseph Warton - Latin poetry - 1763 - 382 pages
...At laft, into their inmoft chambers creep, And filent lie difiblv'd in balmy fleep. ing ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may be yery well accounted for ; laughter implies cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts... | |
 | Virgil - 1763 - 374 pages
...filent lie diflblv'd in balmy fleep. i fpoil ; eir home, ") come, 225 > owfy hum. J ing ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, as we lee in the Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may be very... | |
 | James Beattie - Classical education - 1776 - 582 pages
...ftyle without being ridiculous ; but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dig*' nity, as we fee in the Georgics ; but *' throw the former into ridicule, as in. the " Lutrin. 1 think this may very well he ac*' counted for: laughter implies cenfure; *' inanimate and irrational... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 300 pages
...very reafon, to have conf:dered it with a view to the Iliad. How dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin....this may very well be accounted for: laughter implies cenlure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts 'of cenfure; therefore they may be elevated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 308 pages
...latter into dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw th« former into ridicule, as in the Lutrtn. I think this may very well be accounted for: laughter...cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are not objefts of cenfure ; therefore they may be elevated as much as you pleafe, and no ridicule follows... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1779 - 312 pages
...obfervation, That the low aftions of life cannot beputinto a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous ; but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think this may very well be accounted... | |
 | English poets - 1790 - 304 pages
...things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter into dignity, dignity, as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin. I think thif may very well be accounted for : laughter implies cenfure ; inanimate and irrational beings are... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 902 pages
...observation, that the low actions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...inanimate and irrational beings are not objects of ceufurc ; therefore they may be eleyated as much as you pleafe, and no ridicule follow : but when rational... | |
 | Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 1104 pages
...obfervation, that the low actions of life cannot be put into a figurative ftyle, without being ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raife the latter...the Georgics : but throw the former into ridicule, ss in the JUurin. I think this may very well be accounted for : laughter implies c'enfure ; inanimate... | |
 | Homer - Epic poetry, Greek - 1796 - 350 pages
...ridiculous, but things natural can. Metaphors raifc the latter into dignity > as we fee in the Georgicks : but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin....very well be accounted for : laughter implies cenfure j inanimate and irrational beings arc not objects of cenfure; therefore thefe may btf elevated as much... | |
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Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin^ I think this may very well be accounted for ; laughter implies... 
