Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... profe writings a moft delicate and re- fined humour prevails . Arbuthnot exceeds them all in drollery and humorous painting ; which shows a great genius , because , if I am not mifinformed , he had nothing of this peculiarity in his ...
... profe writings a moft delicate and re- fined humour prevails . Arbuthnot exceeds them all in drollery and humorous painting ; which shows a great genius , because , if I am not mifinformed , he had nothing of this peculiarity in his ...
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... profe ; yet verfe has many peculiar beauties , which for the fake of perfpicuity must be brought under one view . And versification , at any rate , is a subject of so great import- ance , as to deserve a place by itself . SECT . SECT ...
... profe ; yet verfe has many peculiar beauties , which for the fake of perfpicuity must be brought under one view . And versification , at any rate , is a subject of so great import- ance , as to deserve a place by itself . SECT . SECT ...
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... profe . And yet he pretends not to say , that it hath any other power but to raise surprise ; he must mean curiofity ; which is done by fufpending the thought during the period , and bringing it out en- tire at the close . This indeed ...
... profe . And yet he pretends not to say , that it hath any other power but to raise surprise ; he must mean curiofity ; which is done by fufpending the thought during the period , and bringing it out en- tire at the close . This indeed ...
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... profe ascertained in fome measure , and in verse always ; yet taking a whole line or period together , it is arbitrary to pronounce it flow or faft . Hence it is , that a period expreffing what is folemn or deli- berate , ought to be ...
... profe ascertained in fome measure , and in verse always ; yet taking a whole line or period together , it is arbitrary to pronounce it flow or faft . Hence it is , that a period expreffing what is folemn or deli- berate , ought to be ...
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... profe ? The dif cuffion of this point is neceffary , were it for no other purpose but to ascertain the nature and limits of our fubject . To produce this diftinguishing mark , is a task not perhaps so easy as may at firft be apprehended ...
... profe ? The dif cuffion of this point is neceffary , were it for no other purpose but to ascertain the nature and limits of our fubject . To produce this diftinguishing mark , is a task not perhaps so easy as may at firft be apprehended ...
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Page 99 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out, That what we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value; then we find The virtue, that possession would not show us, Whiles it was ours...
Page 216 - Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she — O God ! a beast that wants discourse of reason, Would have mourn'd longer — married with mine uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules...
Page 224 - Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words, Remembers me of all his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form; Then, have I reason to be fond of grief ? Fare you well: had you such a loss as I, I could give better comfort than you do.
Page 219 - Wednesday. Doth he feel it ? No. Doth he hear it? No. Is it insensible then ? Yea, to the dead. But will it not live with the living ? No. Why ? Detraction will not suffer it : — therefore I'll none of it: Honour is a mere 'scutcheon, and so ends my catechism.
Page 403 - For others good, or melt at others woe. What can atone (oh ever-injur'd shade !) Thy fate unpity'd, and thy rites unpaid ? No friend's complaint, no kind domestic tear Pleas'd thy pale ghost, or grac'd thy mournful bier : By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honour'd, and by strangers mourn'd! What tho' no friends in sable weeds appear.
Page 72 - Hampton takes its name. Here Britain's statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants and of nymphs at home; Here thou, great Anna! whom three realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take— and sometimes tea. Hither the heroes and the nymphs resort, To taste awhile the pleasures of a court; In various talk th...
Page 207 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Page 209 - Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason, Or by some habit that too much o'er-leavens The form of plausive manners ; that these men, Carrying, I say, the stamp of one defect, Being nature's livery, or fortune's star, Their virtues else, be they as pure as grace, As infinite as man may undergo, Shall in the general censure take corruption From that particular fault : the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal.
Page 219 - Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 405 - ... mountain's craggy forehead torn, A rock's round fragment flies, with fury borne (Which from the stubborn stone a torrent rends), Precipitate the...