The British Essayists, Zväzok 10Alexander Chalmers J. Johnson, 1808 |
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Strana 64
... Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher endea- vours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some ...
... Aristotle himself allows , that Homer has nothing to boast of as to the unity of his fable , though at the same time that great critic and philosopher endea- vours to palliate this imperfection in the Greek poet , by imputing it in some ...
Strana 65
... Aristotle describes it , when it consists of a beginning , a middle , and an end . Nothing should go before it , be intermixed with it , or follow after it , that is not related to it . As , on the con- trary , no single step should be ...
... Aristotle describes it , when it consists of a beginning , a middle , and an end . Nothing should go before it , be intermixed with it , or follow after it , that is not related to it . As , on the con- trary , no single step should be ...
Strana 66
... Aristotle , by the greatness of the action , does not only mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration , or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness ...
... Aristotle , by the greatness of the action , does not only mean that it should be great in its nature , but also in its duration , or , in other words , that it should have a due length in it , as well as what we properly call greatness ...
Strana 90
... Aristotle's method of considering , first the fable , and secondly the manners ; or , as we generally call them in English , the fable and the characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and ...
... Aristotle's method of considering , first the fable , and secondly the manners ; or , as we generally call them in English , the fable and the characters . Homer has excelled all the heroic poets that ever wrote in the multitude and ...
Strana 93
... Aristotle , as perplexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the subtilty of his behaviour , but by the various concealments and discoveries of his person in ...
... Aristotle , as perplexing that fable with very agreeable plots and intricacies , not only by the many adventures in his voyage , and the subtilty of his behaviour , but by the various concealments and discoveries of his person in ...
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acquainted action admirer Æneas Æneid agreeable appear Aristotle beauty behaviour cerned character CHARLES DIEUPART circumstances consider creature critics desire discourse dress endeavoured entertainment Enville epic poem epic poetry excellent eyes fable fame faults favour FEBRUARY 12 fortune give greatest Greek happiness head heart holy orders Homer honour hope humble servant humour Iliad infernal innocent Julius Cæsar kind ladies language late letter lived look lover mankind manner marriage Milton mind misfortune mistress nature never obliged observed occasion OVID Pandæmonium paper Paradise Lost particular pass passage passion perfect person pin-money pleased pleasure poet pray present prince proper racters reader reason sentiments shew Sir Roger speak SPECTATOR spirit tell Thammuz thing thought tion told town turn VIRG Virgil virtue whole woman words young
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Strana 238 - 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.
Strana 275 - Heaven that He ere long Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven. Thither, if but to pry, shall be perhaps Our first eruption — thither, or elsewhere; For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage, nor th' Abyss Long under darkness cover.
Strana 237 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight, till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever...
Strana 242 - A shout, that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air...
Strana 238 - 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!
Strana 123 - For joy of offer'd peace : but I suppose, If our proposals once again were heard, We should compel them to a quick result.
Strana 237 - Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Strana 151 - But first, whom shall we send In search of this new world ? whom shall we find Sufficient ? who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottom'd, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way...
Strana 240 - 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...
Strana 238 - Their dread commander ; he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower ; his form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...