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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... former may be investigated upon the principles of reason and philofophy . These two claffes of rules , however different , haye often been confounded by critical writers , with- out any material injury to art , or any great incon ...
... former may be investigated upon the principles of reason and philofophy . These two claffes of rules , however different , haye often been confounded by critical writers , with- out any material injury to art , or any great incon ...
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... former pleafe , that they may inftruct ; the latter instruct , that they may the more effectually please . Pleafing , though un- inftructive , poetry may gratify a light mind ; and what tends even to corrupt the heart may gratify ...
... former pleafe , that they may inftruct ; the latter instruct , that they may the more effectually please . Pleafing , though un- inftructive , poetry may gratify a light mind ; and what tends even to corrupt the heart may gratify ...
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... former being generally , as well as justly , supposed to comprehend the latter . Cowley was an excellent perfon , and a very witty poet : but where is the man who would not be ashamed to acknowledge himself pleafed with that clause in ...
... former being generally , as well as justly , supposed to comprehend the latter . Cowley was an excellent perfon , and a very witty poet : but where is the man who would not be ashamed to acknowledge himself pleafed with that clause in ...
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... former is owing to a happy choice of expreffions , equally em- phatical and plain the latter to a laudable partiality in fa- vour of the idioms and radical words of the English tongue ; the native riches and peculiar genius whereof are ...
... former is owing to a happy choice of expreffions , equally em- phatical and plain the latter to a laudable partiality in fa- vour of the idioms and radical words of the English tongue ; the native riches and peculiar genius whereof are ...
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... former . - may be thought to have lefs fimplicity , lefs vivacity , and lefs of the purity of the mother - tongue ; but is at the fame time more uniformly elevated , and lefs debased by vulgarism , than that of his great mafter : -and ...
... former . - may be thought to have lefs fimplicity , lefs vivacity , and lefs of the purity of the mother - tongue ; but is at the fame time more uniformly elevated , and lefs debased by vulgarism , than that of his great mafter : -and ...
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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...