Remarks on the Beauties of PoetryR. and J. Dodsley, 1762 - 123 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 71
... metaphor , confists in conveying an idea intirely by the fub- ftitution of an image : this will be best un- understood by an example . ANGELO , in Measure for Measure , ob- ferving , that his guilty paffion for Ifabella , was inflamed ...
... metaphor , confists in conveying an idea intirely by the fub- ftitution of an image : this will be best un- understood by an example . ANGELO , in Measure for Measure , ob- ferving , that his guilty paffion for Ifabella , was inflamed ...
الصفحة 72
... metaphor . This is a high degree of beauty ; for , it can only happen , when the comparison is fo exqui- fitely juft , that the qualities effential to the borrowed object , are , with the utmoft pro- priety , transferred to the original ...
... metaphor . This is a high degree of beauty ; for , it can only happen , when the comparison is fo exqui- fitely juft , that the qualities effential to the borrowed object , are , with the utmoft pro- priety , transferred to the original ...
الصفحة 74
... diftinguished . Metaphors are to him , what the Eagle was to Jupiter , or the Doves to Venus , fymbols of his Divinity ; the fure indications of Majefty and Beauty . Hor Hor . It has been a matter of wonder to 74 REMARKS ON THE.
... diftinguished . Metaphors are to him , what the Eagle was to Jupiter , or the Doves to Venus , fymbols of his Divinity ; the fure indications of Majefty and Beauty . Hor Hor . It has been a matter of wonder to 74 REMARKS ON THE.
الصفحة 76
... metaphor to a point . When a picture is given us in a fingle word , to make out which , in our own imagina- tion , we must go through a fucceffion of ideas , then are we furprized in the most agreeable manner , and the beauty , of ...
... metaphor to a point . When a picture is given us in a fingle word , to make out which , in our own imagina- tion , we must go through a fucceffion of ideas , then are we furprized in the most agreeable manner , and the beauty , of ...
الصفحة 78
... Come , thick night ! And pall thee in the dunneft fmoak of hell . Hor . How miferably naked of these beauties are the works of our ordinary songsters ? fongfters ? Their metaphors are like the scattered trees in 78 REMARKS ON THE.
... Come , thick night ! And pall thee in the dunneft fmoak of hell . Hor . How miferably naked of these beauties are the works of our ordinary songsters ? fongfters ? Their metaphors are like the scattered trees in 78 REMARKS ON THE.
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الصفحة 40 - 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 15 - Th' infernal Serpent ; he it was, whose guile Stirr'd up with Envy and Revenge, deceiv'd The Mother of Mankind, what time his Pride Had cast him out from Heav'n, with all his Host Of Rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in Glory...
الصفحة 73 - But let concealment like a worm i' th' bud Feed on her damask cheek: she pin'd in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like Patience on a Monument, Smiling at grief.
الصفحة 77 - You may shape, Amintor, Causes to cozen the whole world withal, And yourself too ; but 'tis not like a friend To hide your soul from me. 'Tis not your nature To be thus idle : I have seen you stand As you were blasted 'midst of all your mirth ; Call thrice aloud, and then start, feigning joy So coldly ! — World, what do I here ? a friend Is nothing.
الصفحة 13 - Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon : then from pole to pole He views in breadth, and without longer pause Down right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant, and winds with ease Through the pure marble air his oblique way Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Stars distant, but nigh hand seem'd other worlds ; Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles...
الصفحة 7 - That, chang'd thro' all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives thro
الصفحة 87 - Now entertain conjecture of a time, When creeping murmur, and the poring dark, Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fix'd sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...
الصفحة 123 - In thefe principles, and in the examples by which they have been fupported, we fee clearly the reafon why every enlightened age has had, and muft continue to have, its original Writers. We have no right, therefore, to complain that nature is always the fame, or that the fources of novelty have been exhaufted. It is in Poetry as in Philofophy, new relations are ftruck out, new influences difcovered, and every fuperior genius moves in a world of his own.
الصفحة 55 - The downy feather, on the cordage hung, Moves not; the flat sea shines like yellow gold, Fus'd in the fire ; or like the marble floor 'Of some old temple wide. But where...
الصفحة 68 - But immediately after this the poet adds, For works may have more wit than does 'em good. Now let us substitute the definition in the place of the thing, and it will stand thus: A work may have more of nature dressed to advantage, than will do it good.