An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 416 pages |
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... expressed by selecting such circumstances as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly consti- tutes true poetry . An historian , or prose- writer , might say , " Then shall the most ...
... expressed by selecting such circumstances as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly consti- tutes true poetry . An historian , or prose- writer , might say , " Then shall the most ...
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... expressed with a beautiful brevity and abruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode : Hark ! Hæmus resounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah ! see he dies ! Yet even in death Eurydice he sung . Instead of sung , Virgil says vocabat ...
... expressed with a beautiful brevity and abruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode : Hark ! Hæmus resounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah ! see he dies ! Yet even in death Eurydice he sung . Instead of sung , Virgil says vocabat ...
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... annos ferent , et ve- tustate proficient . " This is very strong and mas- culine sense , expressed and enlivened by a train * Lib . ii . Instit . Cap . 4. ad init . of of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well 82 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... annos ferent , et ve- tustate proficient . " This is very strong and mas- culine sense , expressed and enlivened by a train * Lib . ii . Instit . Cap . 4. ad init . of of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well 82 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... expressed in a more chaste and subdued style . The former will frequently be hurried into obscurity or tur- gidity , and a false grandeur of diction ; the lat- ter will seldom hazard a figure , whose usage is not already established ...
... expressed in a more chaste and subdued style . The former will frequently be hurried into obscurity or tur- gidity , and a false grandeur of diction ; the lat- ter will seldom hazard a figure , whose usage is not already established ...
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... expressed , than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy . Locke , who has embellished his dry subject with a variety of pleasing simili- tudes and allusions , has a passage , relating to the retentiveness of the memory , so very ...
... expressed , than this of the effects of the warmth of fancy . Locke , who has embellished his dry subject with a variety of pleasing simili- tudes and allusions , has a passage , relating to the retentiveness of the memory , so very ...
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Page 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me, I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 134 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Page 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 231 - Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine, (The victor cried) the glorious prize is mine ! While fish in streams, or birds delight in air, Or in a coach and six the British fair, As long as Atalantis shall be read...
Page 313 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 219 - water glide away, And sip, with nymphs, their elemental tea. The graver prude sinks downward to a gnome, In search of mischief still on earth to roam. The light coquettes in sylphs aloft repair, And sport and flutter in the fields of air.
Page 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.
Page 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 130 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.