Essays: On Poetry and Music, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Usefulness of Classical Learning. By James Beattie, ...E. and C. Dilly; and W. Creech, Edinburgh, 1779 - 515 من الصفحات |
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... added ; and hence fome flight anachro- nisms have arifen , which , as they hurt not the fense , it was not thought neceffary to guard against . AN ESSA Y ON POETRY AND MUSIC , AS THEY How are the pleasures we derive from.
... added ; and hence fome flight anachro- nisms have arifen , which , as they hurt not the fense , it was not thought neceffary to guard against . AN ESSA Y ON POETRY AND MUSIC , AS THEY How are the pleasures we derive from.
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... necef- fary to the accomplishment of the end proposed by the artist , and are therefore deno- minated Effential Rules ; while others , called Or- namental or Mechanical , have no better founda- tion than the practice of fome great ...
... necef- fary to the accomplishment of the end proposed by the artist , and are therefore deno- minated Effential Rules ; while others , called Or- namental or Mechanical , have no better founda- tion than the practice of fome great ...
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... neceffary to life , and * The honour of civilizing mankind , is by the poets - af- cribed to poetry ( Hor . Ar . Poet . verf . 391 ) ; - by the orator , to oratory . ( Cicero , de Orat . lib . 1. § 33. ) ; -and by others to philofophy ...
... neceffary to life , and * The honour of civilizing mankind , is by the poets - af- cribed to poetry ( Hor . Ar . Poet . verf . 391 ) ; - by the orator , to oratory . ( Cicero , de Orat . lib . 1. § 33. ) ; -and by others to philofophy ...
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... néceffary to every epic poem ; but of Homer's use of it in thofe paffages where it is fuppofed by fome to be un- neceffary . And in these , it often serves to fet off a fimple fact with allegorical decoration , and , of course , by ...
... néceffary to every epic poem ; but of Homer's use of it in thofe paffages where it is fuppofed by fome to be un- neceffary . And in these , it often serves to fet off a fimple fact with allegorical decoration , and , of course , by ...
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... neceffary to make a poem agreeable ? -In an- fwer to this , let it be observed , -first , That it is natural for us to fympathife with thofe who fuf- fer , even when they fuffer juftly ; which , how- ever , implies not any liking to ...
... neceffary to make a poem agreeable ? -In an- fwer to this , let it be observed , -first , That it is natural for us to fympathife with thofe who fuf- fer , even when they fuffer juftly ; which , how- ever , implies not any liking to ...
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abfurd admiration Æneid affections agreeable alfo almoſt alſo ancient arifes beauty becauſe beſt cauſe character Cicero circumſtances compariſon compofition confequently confiftent converfation defcribe defcription defign Dido difplay diftinguiſhed Dryden effential emotions Engliſh Epic expreffion exprefs fable faid fame fancy faſhion fatire feem fenfe fenfibility fentiments fhall fhould fimilar firſt fome fomething fometimes fpeak fpeech ftill ftyle fubject fublime fuch fuitable fuperior fuppofed genius Georgic give Greek harmony hiftory himſelf Homer Hudibras human humour ideas Iliad imitation inftruction interefting itſelf language laughter leaſt lefs Loft ludicrous meaſure mind moft moral moſt mufic muft muſt nature neceffary numbers obferve object occafion paffage paffions perfons philofophers pleafing pleaſe pleaſure poem poet poetical poetry prefent profe purpoſe Quintilian racter raiſe reader reaſon refpect ridiculous ſeems ſome ſpeak ſtate ſtudy ſtyle ſuppoſed tafte thefe themſelves theſe thing thofe thoſe tion underſtanding uſe verf verſe Virgil whofe words writing
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الصفحة 218 - Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
الصفحة 504 - 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.
الصفحة 248 - And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
الصفحة 29 - 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...
الصفحة 13 - WHAT shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own ? I shall, like beasts or common people, die, Unless you write my elegy ; Whilst others great, by being born, are grown; Their mothers' labour, not their own. In this scale gold, in th' other fame does lie, The weight of that mounts this so high.
الصفحة 30 - ... the murmur of the rivulet and in the uproar of the ocean, in the radiance of summer and gloom of winter, in the thunder of heaven and in the whisper of the breeze, he still finds something to rouse or to soothe his imagination, to draw forth his affections, or to employ his understanding.
الصفحة 414 - Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin^ I think this may very well be accounted for ; laughter implies...
الصفحة 354 - 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!
الصفحة 150 - ... it is very imperfectly, because we know not why: — the singer, by taking up the same air, and applying words to it, immediately translates the oration into our own language; then all uncertainty vanishes, the fancy is filled with determinate ideas...
الصفحة 127 - 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...