Select British Classics, Volum 14J. Conrad, 1803 |
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Pàgina 15
... admire . For this reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who write in a positive dogmatic way , without either lan- guage , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best ...
... admire . For this reason I think there is nothing in the world so tiresome as the works of those critics who write in a positive dogmatic way , without either lan- guage , genius , or imagination . If the reader would see how the best ...
Pàgina 16
... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may observe the following lines in the same view . " A needless Alexandrine ends the song , " That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along . " And afterwards , " ' Tis not enough no ...
... admired in an ancient poet . The reader may observe the following lines in the same view . " A needless Alexandrine ends the song , " That like a wounded snake drags its slow length along . " And afterwards , " ' Tis not enough no ...
Pàgina 28
... admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him : and that we seldom hear the description of a cele- brated person , without a catalogue of some notori- ous weaknesses and infirmities . The reason may be ...
... admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him : and that we seldom hear the description of a cele- brated person , without a catalogue of some notori- ous weaknesses and infirmities . The reason may be ...
Pàgina 29
... Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view ...
... Admiration is a very short - lived passion , that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object , unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries , and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view ...
Pàgina 78
... admire in the Spanish Friar , or the Double Discovery , where the two different plots look like counterparts and copies of one another . The second qualification required in the action of an epic poem , is , that it should be an entire ...
... admire in the Spanish Friar , or the Double Discovery , where the two different plots look like counterparts and copies of one another . The second qualification required in the action of an epic poem , is , that it should be an entire ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 16 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Pàgina 240 - Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Pàgina 335 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Pàgina 243 - Though without number still, amidst the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimensions like themselves, The great seraphic lords and cherubim In close recess and secret conclave sat, A thousand demigods on golden seats, Frequent and full.
Pàgina 240 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Pàgina 244 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple...
Pàgina 244 - Had to impose : he through the armed files Darts his experienced eye, and soon traverse The whole battalion views, their order due, Their visages and stature as of gods ; Their number last he sums. And now his heart Distends with pride, and, hardening in his strength, Glories...
Pàgina 242 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Pàgina 132 - For joy of offer'd peace : But I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Pàgina 242 - That this stream, at certain seasons of the year, especially about the feast of Adonis, is of a bloody colour; which the heathens looked upon as proceeding from a kind of sympathy in the river for the death of Adonis, who was killed by a wild boar in the mountains, out of which this stream rises.