Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious Narratives, with Observations on Some of the Most EminentMundell, 1805 - 174 pàgines |
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... practice . Men must always be expected to fall somewhat short of the standard they have formed to themselves . The great danger , then is , of that standard being too low , not of its being too high . Even if some little abatement be ...
... practice . Men must always be expected to fall somewhat short of the standard they have formed to themselves . The great danger , then is , of that standard being too low , not of its being too high . Even if some little abatement be ...
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... practice . It ought to be suited , also , to the state of society at the time , not to another , though perhaps a happier and better state . There is another observation , made by highly respectable writers , and drawn from very ...
... practice . It ought to be suited , also , to the state of society at the time , not to another , though perhaps a happier and better state . There is another observation , made by highly respectable writers , and drawn from very ...
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... practice ; yet daily experience proves them , on the whole , to be extremely useful . There seems no reason why the same observation should not apply to the case we are con- sidering . An habitual disposition to act con- formably to the ...
... practice ; yet daily experience proves them , on the whole , to be extremely useful . There seems no reason why the same observation should not apply to the case we are con- sidering . An habitual disposition to act con- formably to the ...
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... practice of forming con- nections for life , with peculiar regard to this circumstance , is , perhaps , not one which a wise man would wish very much to encou- rage . Yet , to represent a great deficiency in this particular would be ...
... practice of forming con- nections for life , with peculiar regard to this circumstance , is , perhaps , not one which a wise man would wish very much to encou- rage . Yet , to represent a great deficiency in this particular would be ...
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... practice is very different , and that there is no department of literature , in which the public are willing to put up with such pal- try performances The cause undoubtedly is , that they are resorted to as an amusement by a multitude ...
... practice is very different , and that there is no department of literature , in which the public are willing to put up with such pal- try performances The cause undoubtedly is , that they are resorted to as an amusement by a multitude ...
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Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1805 |
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1805 |
Morality of Fiction: Or, An Inquiry Into the Tendency of Fictitious ... Hugh Murray Visualització completa - 1805 |
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Pàgina 163 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pàgina 167 - 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 : Let health my nerves and finer fibres brace, And I their toys to the great children leave : Of fancy, reason, virtue, nought can me bereave.
Pàgina 165 - With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Pàgina 168 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green. To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon. Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way, And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Pàgina 158 - In narratives, where historical veracity has no place* I cannot discover, why there should not be exhibited the most perfect idea of virtue ; of virtue not angelical, nor above probability, for what we cannot credit we shall never imitate ; but the highest and purest that humanity can reach...
Pàgina 158 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shewn, should always disgust; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it, as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems; for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.
Pàgina 164 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Pàgina 157 - ... made perfectly detestable, because they never could be wholly divested of their excellencies; but such have been in all ages the great corrupters of the world, and their resemblance ought no more to be preserved, than the art of murdering without pain.
Pàgina 155 - But if the power of example is so great as to take possession of the memory by a kind of violence, and produce effects almost without the intervention of the will, care ought to be taken that, when the choice is unrestrained, the best examples only should be exhibited ; and that which is likely to operate so strongly should not be mischievous or uncertain in its effects.
Pàgina 155 - It is justly considered as the greatest excellency of art to imitate nature ; but it is necessary to distinguish those parts of nature which are most proper for imitation : greater care is still required in representing life, which is so often discoloured by passion or deformed by wickedness.
Referències a aquest llibre
Themen und Formen des periodischen Essays im späten 18. Jahrhundert ... Horst W. Drescher Visualització de fragments - 1971 |
Themen und Formen des periodischen Essays im späten 18. Jahrhundert ... Horst W. Drescher Visualització de fragments - 1971 |