Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the AuthorB. Dod, 1752 - 180 من الصفحات |
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... tion of it into any modern language was the French one of the famous Boileau , which , tho ' not always faithful to the text , yet has an ele- gance and a fpirit , which few will ever be able to equal , much less to furpass , The ...
... tion of it into any modern language was the French one of the famous Boileau , which , tho ' not always faithful to the text , yet has an ele- gance and a fpirit , which few will ever be able to equal , much less to furpass , The ...
الصفحة iv
... tion of the bulk of mankind is more alive than their judgment : hence Cafar is more admired for the part he acted in the plains of Pharfalia , than for the recollection of his mind the night after the victory , by which he armed himself ...
... tion of the bulk of mankind is more alive than their judgment : hence Cafar is more admired for the part he acted in the plains of Pharfalia , than for the recollection of his mind the night after the victory , by which he armed himself ...
الصفحة xviii
... tion ? Let his fentiments be confidered as re- flexions from his own mind ; let this piece on the Sublime be regarded as the picture of its author . It is pity we have not a larger portrait of him ; but as that cannot be had , we must ...
... tion ? Let his fentiments be confidered as re- flexions from his own mind ; let this piece on the Sublime be regarded as the picture of its author . It is pity we have not a larger portrait of him ; but as that cannot be had , we must ...
الصفحة xx
... tion , gentle in its beginning , gradually dif perfed , increafing and getting to fuch a head , as to rage beyond refiftance , and devour all things . His Senfe is every where the very thing he would exprefs , and the Sound of his words ...
... tion , gentle in its beginning , gradually dif perfed , increafing and getting to fuch a head , as to rage beyond refiftance , and devour all things . His Senfe is every where the very thing he would exprefs , and the Sound of his words ...
الصفحة 13
... tion at all to their subject , but are whims of their own , or borrowed from the schools . The confequence is , they meet with nothing but contempt and derifion from their unaffected audience . And it is what they deserve , fince they ...
... tion at all to their subject , but are whims of their own , or borrowed from the schools . The confequence is , they meet with nothing but contempt and derifion from their unaffected audience . And it is what they deserve , fince they ...
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الصفحة 153 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
الصفحة 78 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
الصفحة 74 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
الصفحة 114 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
الصفحة 156 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
الصفحة 36 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
الصفحة 56 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble.
الصفحة 45 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
الصفحة 57 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
الصفحة 138 - May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.