Essays: On the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism : on Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind : on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition : on the Utility of Classical Learning, Volume 2William Creech, Edinburgh; and for E. & C. Dilly, and T. Cadell, London, 1776 - Classical education - 555 pages |
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... better foundation than the practice of fome great performer , whom it has become the fashion to imitate . The latter are to be learned from the communi- cations of the artist , or by obferving his A 2 work : work : the former may be ...
... better foundation than the practice of fome great performer , whom it has become the fashion to imitate . The latter are to be learned from the communi- cations of the artist , or by obferving his A 2 work : work : the former may be ...
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... better for that circumftance . Pope is an imitator profeffedly , and of choice ; but to most of those whom he copies he is at least equal , and to ma- ny of them fuperior : and it is pleafing to obferve , how he rifes in proportion to ...
... better for that circumftance . Pope is an imitator profeffedly , and of choice ; but to most of those whom he copies he is at least equal , and to ma- ny of them fuperior : and it is pleafing to obferve , how he rifes in proportion to ...
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... better right to the name of Fable , than a hill of rubbish has to that of Palace , are deftitute of every colour of plaufibility . Animal trees , ships failing in the fky , armies of monftrous things tra- velling between the fun and ...
... better right to the name of Fable , than a hill of rubbish has to that of Palace , are deftitute of every colour of plaufibility . Animal trees , ships failing in the fky , armies of monftrous things tra- velling between the fun and ...
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... better accomplished in those qua- lities that raife admiration , pity , terror , and other ardent emotions ; and events , more compact , more clearly connected with caufes and confequences , and unfolded in an order more flattering to ...
... better accomplished in those qua- lities that raife admiration , pity , terror , and other ardent emotions ; and events , more compact , more clearly connected with caufes and confequences , and unfolded in an order more flattering to ...
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... better in a moral view , than those of our own time ; or that I mean any reflection upon the virtue or good fenfe of the age , when I fpeak difrespectfully of fome ticles of external decoration . attitudes are not perhaps fo might be ...
... better in a moral view , than those of our own time ; or that I mean any reflection upon the virtue or good fenfe of the age , when I fpeak difrespectfully of fome ticles of external decoration . attitudes are not perhaps fo might be ...
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Page 540 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts: others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention.
Page 516 - I begin to discover beauties that were till now imperceptible to me. Every corner of an eye, or turn of a nose or ear, the smallest degree of light or shade on a cheek, or in a dimple, have charms to distract me. I no longer look upon Lord Plausible as ridiculous, for admiring a Lady's fine tip of an ear and pretty elbow (as the Plain Dealer...
Page 31 - I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace ; You cannot shut the windows of the sky, Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; You cannot bar my constant feet to trace The woods and lawns, by living stream, at eve...
Page 284 - Ordain'd by thee ; and this delicious place For us too large, where thy abundance wants Partakers, and uncropt falls to the ground. But...
Page 403 - se offendendo;' it cannot be else. For here lies the point : if I drown myself wittingly, it argues an act : and an act hath three branches ; it is, to act, to do, to perform : argal, she drowned herself wittingly.
Page 336 - The sun had long since in the lap Of Thetis taken out his nap, And like a lobster boil'd, the morn From black to red began to turn."* The Imagination modifies images, and gives unity to variety; it sees all things in one, il piu nell
Page 308 - When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 182 - ... and diminution of the waters is apt to raise in a lonely region, full of echoes, and rocks, and caverns ; the grotesque and ghastly appearance of such a landscape by the light of the moon — objects like these diffuse a gloom over the fancy...
Page 374 - It is a sackposset, wherein the deeper you go you will find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider because it is attended with an egg. But then...
Page 384 - Cadwallador and Arthur, kings Full famous in romantic tale) when he, O'er many a craggy hill and barren cliff, Upon a cargo of fam'd Cestrian cheese, High over-shadowing rides, with a design To vend his wares, or at th' Avonian mart, Or Maridunum, or the ancient town Yclep'd Brechinia, or where Vaga's stream Encircles Ariconium, fruitful soil!