Dionysius Longinus On the Sublime: Translated from the Greek, with Notes and Observations, and Some Account of the Life, Writings, and Character of the AuthorB. Dod, 1752 - 180 pàgines |
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Pàgina xxviii
... masterly reflexions of this kind in the 33d and 34th Sections , which are only to be excelled by Mr. Addison's Effay on the imagination . Whoever reads this part part of Longinus , and that piece of Mr. Addi- xxviii The Life and Writings.
... masterly reflexions of this kind in the 33d and 34th Sections , which are only to be excelled by Mr. Addison's Effay on the imagination . Whoever reads this part part of Longinus , and that piece of Mr. Addi- xxviii The Life and Writings.
Pàgina 24
... imagination . There is a deal of this fort of pathetic in the words of our Saviour to the poor Jews , who were impos'd upon and deluded into fatal errors by the Scribes and Pharifees , who had long been guilty of the heaviest oppreffion ...
... imagination . There is a deal of this fort of pathetic in the words of our Saviour to the poor Jews , who were impos'd upon and deluded into fatal errors by the Scribes and Pharifees , who had long been guilty of the heaviest oppreffion ...
Pàgina 31
... imagination ! and what a vast idea , " The space between heaven and earth , " is here placed before it ! Dr. Pearce has taken notice of such a thought in the Wisdom of Solomon : Thy almighty " word leaped down - it touched the heaven ...
... imagination ! and what a vast idea , " The space between heaven and earth , " is here placed before it ! Dr. Pearce has taken notice of such a thought in the Wisdom of Solomon : Thy almighty " word leaped down - it touched the heaven ...
Pàgina 37
... imagination ; as the laft thought , which is fuperlatively great , of the reach of his genius : and had earth been then , all earth Had to her centre fhook . He seems apprehenfive , that the mind of his readers was not stocked enough ...
... imagination ; as the laft thought , which is fuperlatively great , of the reach of his genius : and had earth been then , all earth Had to her centre fhook . He seems apprehenfive , that the mind of his readers was not stocked enough ...
Pàgina 39
... in the poetical parts of Scripture , and heating his imagination with the combat of the gods in Homer , has made Milton fucceed fo well in his Gambol around him on the watry way , And heavy fight Sect . 9 . 39 on the SUBLIME .
... in the poetical parts of Scripture , and heating his imagination with the combat of the gods in Homer , has made Milton fucceed fo well in his Gambol around him on the watry way , And heavy fight Sect . 9 . 39 on the SUBLIME .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 153 - 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 78 - Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, have they not sped ? have they not divided the prey ; to every man a damsel or two ; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil...
Pàgina 74 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: — I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not , fatal vision , sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Pàgina 114 - She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors: "Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.
Pàgina 156 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling Nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Pàgina 36 - Th' infernal monarch rear'd his horrid head, Leap'd from his throne, lest Neptune's arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day, And pour in light on Pluto's drear abodes, Abhorr'd by men, and dreadful ev'n to gods. Such war th' immortals wage; such horrors rend The world's vast concave, when the gods contend.
Pàgina 56 - They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths : their soul is melted because of trouble.
Pàgina 45 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Pàgina 57 - Spit, fire! spout, rain! Nor rain, wind, thunder, fire, are my daughters: I tax not you, you elements, with unkindness; I never gave you kingdom, call'd you children, You owe me no subscription: then let fall Your horrible pleasure; here I stand, your slave, A poor, infirm, weak, and despis'd old man.
Pàgina 138 - May boldly deviate from the common track ; Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend, And rise to faults true critics dare not mend. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part. And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which, without passing through the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.