Elements of CriticismHuntington and Savage, 1842 - 504 pàgines |
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Pàgina 3
... writers great opportunity of receiving instruction from every quarter . The author of this treatise , having always been of opinion that the general taste is ... writer , who must be possessed of the thought before he can put it into words ,
... writers great opportunity of receiving instruction from every quarter . The author of this treatise , having always been of opinion that the general taste is ... writer , who must be possessed of the thought before he can put it into words ,
Pàgina 27
... writers , man is entirely a selfish being according to others , universal benevolence is hist duty : one founds morality upon sympathy solely , and one upon utility . If any of these systems were copied from nature , the present subject ...
... writers , man is entirely a selfish being according to others , universal benevolence is hist duty : one founds morality upon sympathy solely , and one upon utility . If any of these systems were copied from nature , the present subject ...
Pàgina 36
... Grace ? How odious ought writers to be , who thus employ the talents they have received from their Maker * Polybius , Lib . 4. cap . 3 . most traitorously against himself , by endeavoring to corrupt and 36 [ Ch . 2 . EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
... Grace ? How odious ought writers to be , who thus employ the talents they have received from their Maker * Polybius , Lib . 4. cap . 3 . most traitorously against himself , by endeavoring to corrupt and 36 [ Ch . 2 . EMOTIONS AND PASSIONS .
Pàgina 37
... writers , that their comedies are entertaining ; unless it could be maintained , that wit and sprightliness are better suited to a vicious than a virtuous character . It would grieve me to think so ; and the direct contrary is ...
... writers , that their comedies are entertaining ; unless it could be maintained , that wit and sprightliness are better suited to a vicious than a virtuous character . It would grieve me to think so ; and the direct contrary is ...
Pàgina 39
... writers upon ethics ; but a man may be convinced of its reality , by attentive- ly watching his own heart when he thinks warmly of any signal act of gratitude : he will be conscious of the feeling , as distinct from the esteem or ...
... writers upon ethics ; but a man may be convinced of its reality , by attentive- ly watching his own heart when he thinks warmly of any signal act of gratitude : he will be conscious of the feeling , as distinct from the esteem or ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 332 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Pàgina 112 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Pàgina 397 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond...
Pàgina 142 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Pàgina 395 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The live-long day, with patient expectation, To see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Pàgina 445 - With mazy error under pendent shades Ran nectar, visiting each plant, and fed Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Pàgina 406 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Pàgina 329 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. DUCH. Alas, poor Richard! where rides he the whilst? YORK. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-grac'd actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Pàgina 84 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life ; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Pàgina 242 - tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two...