Elements of criticism [by H. Home].Bell & Bradfute, A. Constable & Company, and J. Fairbairn, [and others], 1817 - Criticism - 515 pages |
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... pleasure language can afford , when the subject expressed is disagreeable a thing that is loathsome , or a scene of horror to make one's hair stand on end , may be described in a manner so lively , as that the dis- agreeableness of the ...
... pleasure language can afford , when the subject expressed is disagreeable a thing that is loathsome , or a scene of horror to make one's hair stand on end , may be described in a manner so lively , as that the dis- agreeableness of the ...
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... pleasure . But this subject belongs to the third section . The foregoing observations afford a standard to every nation , for estimating , pretty accurately , the comparative merit of the words that enter into their own language : but ...
... pleasure . But this subject belongs to the third section . The foregoing observations afford a standard to every nation , for estimating , pretty accurately , the comparative merit of the words that enter into their own language : but ...
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... pleasure to the ear , depends on principles remote from common view , it will be necessary to premise some general observations upon the appearance that objects make , when placed in an increasing or decreasing series . Where the ...
... pleasure to the ear , depends on principles remote from common view , it will be necessary to premise some general observations upon the appearance that objects make , when placed in an increasing or decreasing series . Where the ...
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... pleasure in viewing a series ascending by large differences ; directly opposite to what we feel when the differences are small . The least ob- ject of a series ascending by large differences has the same effect upon the mind , as if it ...
... pleasure in viewing a series ascending by large differences ; directly opposite to what we feel when the differences are small . The least ob- ject of a series ascending by large differences has the same effect upon the mind , as if it ...
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... pleasure of sound , be denominated a climax in sound . The last article is the music of periods as united 0 着 a discourse ; which shall be despatched in a very few words . By no other human means is it possi- ble to present to the mind ...
... pleasure of sound , be denominated a climax in sound . The last article is the music of periods as united 0 着 a discourse ; which shall be despatched in a very few words . By no other human means is it possi- ble to present to the mind ...
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Page 299 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 171 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 230 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 210 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 163 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Page 182 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 316 - 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...
Page 249 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 244 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 298 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.