Elements of Criticism, Volume 2A. Miller, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1762 - Criticism |
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... verse I propose to handle in the laft fection . For though the foregoing beauties are found in verfe as well as in profe ; yet verfe has many peculiar beauties , which for the fake of perfpicuity must be brought under one view . And ...
... verse I propose to handle in the laft fection . For though the foregoing beauties are found in verfe as well as in profe ; yet verfe has many peculiar beauties , which for the fake of perfpicuity must be brought under one view . And ...
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... verses of Nevius preserved by Aulus Gellius , had been edu- cated by Olympias at the court of Philip , it is im- probable that he would have restored the beautiful Spaniard . Ibid . letter 3 . P If any one have a curiofity for more ...
... verses of Nevius preserved by Aulus Gellius , had been edu- cated by Olympias at the court of Philip , it is im- probable that he would have restored the beautiful Spaniard . Ibid . letter 3 . P If any one have a curiofity for more ...
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... 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 pronounced flow ; and ought to be pronounced ...
... 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 pronounced flow ; and ought to be pronounced ...
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... verse , though handled by every grammarian , merits more attention than has been given it . The sub- ject is intimately connected with human nature ; and to explain it thoroughly , feve- ral nice and delicate feelings must be em- ploy'd ...
... verse , though handled by every grammarian , merits more attention than has been given it . The sub- ject is intimately connected with human nature ; and to explain it thoroughly , feve- ral nice and delicate feelings must be em- ploy'd ...
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... verse ? This will hardly be maintained ; and there- fore , instead of rules , the ear must be ap- pealed to as the proper judge . But what gain we by being thus referred to another standard ? It still recurs , by what mark does the ear ...
... verse ? This will hardly be maintained ; and there- fore , instead of rules , the ear must be ap- pealed to as the proper judge . But what gain we by being thus referred to another standard ? It still recurs , by what mark does the ear ...
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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...