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 sider |
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Side 10
... confider the debafing influence of paffion and pre- judice ; but a moft comfortable one , when it directs our view to the original dignity and rectitude of the the human foul . To favour virtue , and speak ΤΟ ON POETRY.
... confider the debafing influence of paffion and pre- judice ; but a moft comfortable one , when it directs our view to the original dignity and rectitude of the the human foul . To favour virtue , and speak ΤΟ ON POETRY.
Side 11
... speak truth , and take pleasure in those who do so , is na- tural to man ; to act otherwife , requires an effort , does violence to nature , and always implies fome evil purpose in the agent . The first , like pro- greffive motion , is ...
... speak truth , and take pleasure in those who do so , is na- tural to man ; to act otherwife , requires an effort , does violence to nature , and always implies fome evil purpose in the agent . The first , like pro- greffive motion , is ...
Side 12
... speak of it with à view only to observe , that the propriety of the character affigned to the chorus is founded on that moral propensity above mentioned . For to in- troduce a company of unprejudiced perfons , even of the vulgar ...
... speak of it with à view only to observe , that the propriety of the character affigned to the chorus is founded on that moral propensity above mentioned . For to in- troduce a company of unprejudiced perfons , even of the vulgar ...
Side 21
... speak not now of the import- ance of machinery , as an inftrument of the fu- blime and of the marvellous , 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 ...
... speak not now of the import- ance of machinery , as an inftrument of the fu- blime and of the marvellous , 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 ...
Side 33
... speak of them fo as to be understood , they are all but so many energies of the fame individual mind ; and therefore it is not to be supposed , that what contradicts any one leading faculty fhould yield permanent delight to the reft ...
... speak of them fo as to be understood , they are all but so many energies of the fame individual mind ; and therefore it is not to be supposed , that what contradicts any one leading faculty fhould yield permanent delight to the reft ...
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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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Side 218 - Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 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...
Side 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.
Side 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.
Side 414 - Georgics ; but throw the former into ridicule, as in the Lutrin^ I think this may very well be accounted for ; laughter implies...
Side 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!
Side 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...
Side 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...