Elements of Criticism, Volum 3A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 |
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Pàgina 4
... of any other fenfe . It has no good effect to compare things by way of fimile that are of the fame kind , nor to contraft things of different kinds . The The reason is given in the chapter cited a- bove 4 Ch . XIX . COMPARISONS .
... of any other fenfe . It has no good effect to compare things by way of fimile that are of the fame kind , nor to contraft things of different kinds . The The reason is given in the chapter cited a- bove 4 Ch . XIX . COMPARISONS .
Pàgina 5
Lord Henry Home Kames. The reason is given in the chapter cited a- bove ; and the reason shall be illustrated by examples . The firft is a refemblance in- ftituted betwixt two objects fo nearly rela- ted as to make little or no ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. The reason is given in the chapter cited a- bove ; and the reason shall be illustrated by examples . The firft is a refemblance in- ftituted betwixt two objects fo nearly rela- ted as to make little or no ...
Pàgina 11
... reason . Julia . The more thou damm'st it up , the more it burns : The current , that with gentle murmur glides , Thou know'ft , being stopp'd , impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair courfe is not hindered , He makes sweet mufic ...
... reason . Julia . The more thou damm'st it up , the more it burns : The current , that with gentle murmur glides , Thou know'ft , being stopp'd , impatiently doth rage ; But when his fair courfe is not hindered , He makes sweet mufic ...
Pàgina 28
... reason , the follow- ing fpeech of a gardiner to his fervants , is extremely improper . Go bind thou up yon dangling apricocks Which , like unruly children , make their fire Stoop with oppreffion of their prodigal weight : Give fome ...
... reason , the follow- ing fpeech of a gardiner to his fervants , is extremely improper . Go bind thou up yon dangling apricocks Which , like unruly children , make their fire Stoop with oppreffion of their prodigal weight : Give fome ...
Pàgina 46
... Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r ; As heav'n's bleft beam turns vinegar more fowr . Ibid . 1. 145 . Lord Bolingbroke , fpeaking of hiftorians : Where their fincerity as to fact is doubtful , we ftrike out truth by the ...
... Reason itself but gives it edge and pow'r ; As heav'n's bleft beam turns vinegar more fowr . Ibid . 1. 145 . Lord Bolingbroke , fpeaking of hiftorians : Where their fincerity as to fact is doubtful , we ftrike out truth by the ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 178 - Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Pàgina 15 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell, Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires...
Pàgina 211 - I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My...
Pàgina 67 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Pàgina 12 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced 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 17 - 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 199 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Pàgina 18 - And higher than that wall a circling row Of goodliest trees, loaden with fairest fruit, Blossoms and fruits at once...
Pàgina 62 - First in his east the glorious lamp was seen, Regent of day, and all th' horizon round Invested with bright rays, jocund to run His longitude through heav'n's high road; the gray Dawn and the Pleiades before him danc'd, Shedding sweet influence...
Pàgina 55 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times.