Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, المجلد 3T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1812 |
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الصفحة 11
... prefent . It was not to fchools and uni- verfities that the perfons applied who fought to distinguish themselves . They had not this easy recourfe . They travelled for their improvement into diftant countries , to Egypt , and to the ...
... prefent . It was not to fchools and uni- verfities that the perfons applied who fought to distinguish themselves . They had not this easy recourfe . They travelled for their improvement into diftant countries , to Egypt , and to the ...
الصفحة 35
... prefent , and paffing before our eyes . It is this employment of circum- ftances , in Narration , that is properly termed Hiftorical Painting . IN all thefe virtues of narration , particularly in this laft , of picturefque defcriptive ...
... prefent , and paffing before our eyes . It is this employment of circum- ftances , in Narration , that is properly termed Hiftorical Painting . IN all thefe virtues of narration , particularly in this laft , of picturefque defcriptive ...
الصفحة 83
... prefent , and even ad- drefs ourselves to things inanimate . Hence , in congruity with thofe various movements of the mind , arise thofe turns of expreffion , which we now distinguish , by the learned names of Hyper- bole , Profopopoeia ...
... prefent , and even ad- drefs ourselves to things inanimate . Hence , in congruity with thofe various movements of the mind , arise thofe turns of expreffion , which we now distinguish , by the learned names of Hyper- bole , Profopopoeia ...
الصفحة 104
... prefent form of our English Heroic rhyme in couplets , is a modern fpecies of Verfification . The measure generally used in the days of Queen Elizabeth , King James , and King Charles I. was the stanza of eight lines , fuch as Spenfer ...
... prefent form of our English Heroic rhyme in couplets , is a modern fpecies of Verfification . The measure generally used in the days of Queen Elizabeth , King James , and King Charles I. was the stanza of eight lines , fuch as Spenfer ...
الصفحة 107
... prefent form . Men then began to look back upon the more fimple and innocent life which their forefathers led , or which , at least , they fancied them to have led : they looked back upon it with pleasure ; and in those rural scenes ...
... prefent form . Men then began to look back upon the more fimple and innocent life which their forefathers led , or which , at least , they fancied them to have led : they looked back upon it with pleasure ; and in those rural scenes ...
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action Æneid againſt alfo antient arifes Author beautiful cenfure characters circumftances Comedy compofed Compofition confiderable confiftent converfation defcribed defcription difplay diftinct diftinguiſhed elegant Engliſh Epic Poem Epic Poetry Epiſodes Euripides expreffion expreffive faid fame fatire fcenes feems fentiments feveral fhall fhould fimple fimplicity firft firſt fituations fome fometimes fpecies fpirit ftate ftory ftrain ftrong fubject fublime fuch fufficient fuited fyllables genius give greateſt Greek Hero Hiftorian Hiftory higheſt himſelf Homer Iliad impreffion inftance inftruction interefting itſelf juft kind L E C laft LECT lefs Lyric Poetry manner meaſure moft moral moſt Mufic muft muſt narration nature neceffary obfervations objects occafions paffages paffed paffion Paftoral perfonages perfons philofophical pleafing pleaſe pleaſure Poet poetical poffefs prefent Profe racters raiſed reafon refpect reft render rife ſcenes ſhall Sophocles Style Taffo thefe themſelves Theocritus theſe thofe thoſe Thucydides tion Tragedy unity Verfe Verfification Verſe Virgil Voltaire Writing XLII XXXVIII
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الصفحة 321 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously but luckily: when he describes anything you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read Nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
الصفحة 150 - Swinging slow with sullen roar; Or if the air will not permit, Some still removed place will fit, Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom...
الصفحة 153 - Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon : look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
الصفحة 183 - That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he?
الصفحة 157 - Clos'd o'er the head of your lov'd Lycidas? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream: Ay me!
الصفحة 322 - Admirable scenes and passages, without number, there are in his Plays ; passages beyond what are to be found in any other Dramatic Writer; but there is hardly any one of his Plays which can be called altogether a good one, or which can be read with uninterrupted pleasure from beginning to end. Besides...
الصفحة 148 - He thinks in a peculiar train, and he thinks always as a man of genius; he looks round on Nature and on Life with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet, the eye that distinguishes in...
الصفحة 145 - But a true poet makes us imagine that we see it before our eyes : he catches the distinguishing features ; he gives it the colours of life and reality ; he places it in such a light that a painter could copy after him.
الصفحة 3 - ... universal taste of mankind, proved and tried throughout the succession of so many ages. Imperfections in their works he may indeed point out; passages that are faulty he may show; for where is the human work that is perfect?
الصفحة 115 - The fprightly Sylvia trips along the green, " She runs, but hopes fhe does not run unfeen ; " While a kind glance at her purfuer flies, " How much at variance are her feet and eyes !" There is nothing the writers of this kind of poetry are fonder of than defcriptions of paftoral Prefents.