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... reader . 1 If this glow of imagery , refulting from clear and bright preceptions in the poet , be not a certain character of genius , it will be difficult , I believe , to fay what is : I mean fo far as defcriptive poetry , which we are ...
... reader . 1 If this glow of imagery , refulting from clear and bright preceptions in the poet , be not a certain character of genius , it will be difficult , I believe , to fay what is : I mean fo far as defcriptive poetry , which we are ...
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... reader [ g ] ; " this can be accomplished by nothing lefs , than the genuine plastic powers of original creation . 2. If , from this vaft theatre of fenfible and extraneous beauty , the poet turn his attention . to what paffes within ...
... reader [ g ] ; " this can be accomplished by nothing lefs , than the genuine plastic powers of original creation . 2. If , from this vaft theatre of fenfible and extraneous beauty , the poet turn his attention . to what paffes within ...
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... readers to enter into with an exquifite fenfibility . What are the ten- der touches which most affect us on these oc- cafions ? Are they not fuch as thefe : com- plaints of untimely death : of unnatural cru-温~ 1 [ i ] So the great ...
... readers to enter into with an exquifite fenfibility . What are the ten- der touches which most affect us on these oc- cafions ? Are they not fuch as thefe : com- plaints of untimely death : of unnatural cru-温~ 1 [ i ] So the great ...
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... them would have flirr'd up remorse . The reader , alfo , may confult that won- derful fcene , in which MACDUFF laments the murder of his wife and children . [ MAC- BETH . ] 2. It 2. It is not different with the MANNERS ; I 26 A DISCOURSE ...
... them would have flirr'd up remorse . The reader , alfo , may confult that won- derful fcene , in which MACDUFF laments the murder of his wife and children . [ MAC- BETH . ] 2. It 2. It is not different with the MANNERS ; I 26 A DISCOURSE ...
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... reader be fcandalized at this bold com- parison . It affirms no more , than what the graveft authors have frequently fhewn , a manifeft analogy between the facred and prophane poets ; and which supposes only , that heaven , when it ...
... reader be fcandalized at this bold com- parison . It affirms no more , than what the graveft authors have frequently fhewn , a manifeft analogy between the facred and prophane poets ; and which supposes only , that heaven , when it ...
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AENEIS affections alfo allufion almoſt anſwer antient beauty becauſe befides beſt cafe character cifely circumftances claffic compofition conclufion confideration copied correfponding defcription defign difpofition diftinct Effay eſpecially Euripides exerciſe expreffion exprefs faid fame fancy feem feen fenfe fenfible fentiment feveral fhall fhew fhould figns fimilar fingle fion firſt fituation fome fometimes forms fpeak fpecies fpirit ftill ftriking fubject fucceeding fuch fufpicion fuppofe furniſh genius ginal GONDIBERT hath himſelf Homer idea imagery imita imitation inftance itſelf Jonfon juft juſt language leaft leaſt lefs manner ment Milton mind moft moſt muft muſt nature neceffary neceffity obfervation objects occafion original paffage paffion paſs perfon philofophy Plato pleaſure poem poet poetry prefent purpoſe racters reader reafon refemblance reflexions refpect repreſentation ſay Shakespeare ſpeak ſtate Statius thefe themſelves theſe things thofe thoſe thought tion tranflated ture ufually underſtand univerfally uſe Virgil whofe words worfe writers καὶ
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Page 182 - Paffion, all confus'd ; Still by himfelf abus'd or difabus'd; Created half to rife, and half to fall ; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all ; Sole judge of Truth, in endlefs Error hurl'd: The glory, jeft, and riddle of the world...
Page 235 - To-morrow my appeal comes on; Without your help, the cause is gone — " "The duke expects my lord and you, About some great affair, at two — " "Put my Lord Bolingbroke in mind, To get my warrant quickly sign'd: Consider, 'tis my first request.
Page 199 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 214 - Th' adventure of the bear and fiddle Is sung, but breaks off in the middle. When civil fury first grew high, And men fell out, they knew not why; When hard words, jealousies, and fears, Set folks together by the ears, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, For Dame Religion, as for punk...
Page 172 - And turn the Adamantine fpindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound.
Page 151 - In the sun's orb, made porous to receive And drink the liquid light ; firm to retain Her gather'd beams, great palace now of light. Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing, in their golden urns draw light...
Page 73 - The objects of imitation, like the materials of human knowledge, are a common stock, which experience furnishes to all men. And it is in the operations of the mind upon them, that the glory of poetry, as of science, consists.
Page 217 - Oh, think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods! Oh, 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death...
Page 225 - If a man's fafety or profperity fhould depend upon winds or rains, muft new motions be imprejfcd upon the atmofphere, and new directions given to the floating parts of it, by fome extraordinary and new influence from God ?" III. Sometimes the original expreffion is not taken but paraphrafed ; and the writer difguifes himfelf in a kind of circumlocution. Yet...
Page 173 - Shakespeare, forget that the Pagan Imagery was familiar to all the Poets of his time ; and that abundance of this sort of learning was to be picked up from almost every English book that he could take into his hands.