An essay on criticism; as it regards design, thought, and expression, in prose and verse, by the author of the Critical history of EnglandJ. Pemberton, 1728 - 94 strán (strany) |
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... Lines of Boileau to the King : Serene himself the ftormy War he guides , And o'er the Battle like a God prefides . I fhall all along , through this Difcourfe , take the Liberty to pafs from one Subject to another as the Hint offers ...
... Lines of Boileau to the King : Serene himself the ftormy War he guides , And o'er the Battle like a God prefides . I fhall all along , through this Difcourfe , take the Liberty to pafs from one Subject to another as the Hint offers ...
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... Lines of Boileau to the King : Serene himself the ftormy War he guides , And o'er the Battle like a God prefides . I fhall all along , through this Difcourfe , take the Liberty to pafs from one Subject to another as the Hint offers ...
... Lines of Boileau to the King : Serene himself the ftormy War he guides , And o'er the Battle like a God prefides . I fhall all along , through this Difcourfe , take the Liberty to pafs from one Subject to another as the Hint offers ...
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... Lines , we have tasteless , heavy , dogmatical , stupid Macer and Mundungus all of the poor Criticks . Had they been really fuch ftupid Creatures , they could not have given fuch Offence . Hard Words fhew Anger more than Indignation ...
... Lines , we have tasteless , heavy , dogmatical , stupid Macer and Mundungus all of the poor Criticks . Had they been really fuch ftupid Creatures , they could not have given fuch Offence . Hard Words fhew Anger more than Indignation ...
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... Lines after Mundungus ? Well do they play the careful Critick's Part , Inftructing doubly by their matchless Art : Rules for good Verfe they first with Pains indite , Then fhew us what are bad by what they write . The Guardian and ...
... Lines after Mundungus ? Well do they play the careful Critick's Part , Inftructing doubly by their matchless Art : Rules for good Verfe they first with Pains indite , Then fhew us what are bad by what they write . The Guardian and ...
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... Line upon it ? Whereupon are the Foundations thereof faftened ? or , Who laid the Corner Stone ? When the Morning Stars fang , and the Sons of God shouted Happily imitated by Milton . Up he rode , [ for Joy ! Follow'd with Acclamations ...
... Line upon it ? Whereupon are the Foundations thereof faftened ? or , Who laid the Corner Stone ? When the Morning Stars fang , and the Sons of God shouted Happily imitated by Milton . Up he rode , [ for Joy ! Follow'd with Acclamations ...
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Addifon Affectation againſt agreeable alfo Anfwer Antients Antiquaries Ariftotle Author Beauty becauſe beſt Boileau Bouhours Cato Caufe charming cou'd Criticiſms Criticks Dacier Defign Delicacy Dryden Duke Duke of Lerma eafily Echard's Effay efpecially English Epick excufes Expreffion Fable faid fame Thing fays feems feen felf Felton feveral fhall fhew fhould firft fome fomething fometimes fpeaking French ftrange fublime fuch fure Genius greateſt Greek Hiftorian Hiftory himſelf Homer Horace Horace's Hudibras imitated Inftance Inftruction Judgement juft Kind King Ladder-dance laft Language Latin leaft Learning lefs loft Lord Love Mafter Milton moft Monfieur moſt Mufe muft muſt Nature noble Numbers Obfervation Ovid Paffage Paffion pleafe Pleafure Poem Poetry Poets Praife prefent Profe Reader Reafon Senfe Spectator Stile Tafte Tamerlane thefe themſelves theſe thofe thors thoſe thou Thought Tongue Tranflation Tranflator of Homer underſtand underſtood Verfes Verſes Virgil Waller whofe Words write wrote
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Strana 11 - What tho' nor real voice nor sound, Amid their radiant orbs be found! In reason's ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice : For ever singing as they shine, "•• The hand that made us is Divine.
Strana 42 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these, a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls...
Strana 55 - But silently a gentle tear let fall From either eye, and wip'd them with her hair; Two other precious drops that ready stood, Each in their crystal sluice, he ere they fell Kiss'd, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse And pious awe, that fear'd to have offended.
Strana 30 - Our general taste in England is for epigram, turns of wit, and forced conceits, which have no manner of influence either for the bettering or enlarging the mind of him who reads them, and have been carefully avoided by the greatest writers, both among the ancients and moderns.
Strana 46 - French critics, has taken pains to show that it is impossible for any thought to be beautiful which is not just, and has not its foundation in the nature of things ; that the basis of all wit is truth ; and that no thought can be valuable of which good sense is not the groundwork.
Strana 10 - Who is this that darkeneth counsel By words without knowledge? Gird up thy loins like a man ; For I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if thou hast understanding.
Strana 31 - Underneath this stone doth lie As much virtue as could die ; Which, when alive, did vigour give To as much beauty as could live.
Strana 52 - Well-sounding verses are the charm we use, Heroic thoughts and virtue to infuse : Things of deep sense we may in prose unfold, But they move more in lofty numbers told. By the loud trumpet, which our courage aids, We learn that sound, as well as sense, persuades. The Muses...