Elements of Criticism, المجلد 3A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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... contribute . A comparison , like other human productions , may fall fhort of its end ; and of this defect inftances are not Ε VOL . III . rare rare even among good writers . To com- plete the Ch.XIX . 33 COMPARISONS .
... contribute . A comparison , like other human productions , may fall fhort of its end ; and of this defect inftances are not Ε VOL . III . rare rare even among good writers . To com- plete the Ch.XIX . 33 COMPARISONS .
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Lord Henry Home Kames. rare even among good writers . To com- plete the present fubject , it will be neceffa- ry to make fome obfervations upon fuch faulty comparisons . I begin with obferving , that nothing can be more erroneous than to ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. rare even among good writers . To com- plete the present fubject , it will be neceffa- ry to make fome obfervations upon fuch faulty comparisons . I begin with obferving , that nothing can be more erroneous than to ...
الصفحة 36
... writer ought to avoid rai- fing a fimile upon a low image , which ne- ver fails to bring down the principal subject . In general , it is a rule , that a grand object ought never to be refembled to one that is diminutive , however ...
... writer ought to avoid rai- fing a fimile upon a low image , which ne- ver fails to bring down the principal subject . In general , it is a rule , that a grand object ought never to be refembled to one that is diminutive , however ...
الصفحة 41
... d the fpring . Odyfjey xxi . 51 . Such a fimile upon the fimpleft of all ac- tions , that of opening a lock , is lefque . VOL . III . F pure bur A A writer of delicacy will avoid draw- ing his comparisons Ch . XIX . 4t COMPARISONS .
... d the fpring . Odyfjey xxi . 51 . Such a fimile upon the fimpleft of all ac- tions , that of opening a lock , is lefque . VOL . III . F pure bur A A writer of delicacy will avoid draw- ing his comparisons Ch . XIX . 4t COMPARISONS .
الصفحة 42
Lord Henry Home Kames. A writer of delicacy will avoid draw- ing his comparisons from any image that is naufeous , ugly , or remarkably disagreeable : for however ftrong the resemblance may be , more will be loft than gained by fuch ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. A writer of delicacy will avoid draw- ing his comparisons from any image that is naufeous , ugly , or remarkably disagreeable : for however ftrong the resemblance may be , more will be loft than gained by fuch ...
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الصفحة 178 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
الصفحة 15 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
الصفحة 211 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
الصفحة 67 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
الصفحة 12 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
الصفحة 17 - 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 199 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
الصفحة 18 - And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once...
الصفحة 62 - First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all th' horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heav'n's high road; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danc'd, Shedding sweet influence...
الصفحة 55 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.