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... gives not instant relief ; it is necessary that the void be filled with some amusement , gently relaxing the spirits ; * organic pleasure , which hath no relish but while we are in vigour , is ill qualified for that office ; but the ...
... gives not instant relief ; it is necessary that the void be filled with some amusement , gently relaxing the spirits ; * organic pleasure , which hath no relish but while we are in vigour , is ill qualified for that office ; but the ...
Page xx
... give pleasure to the eye and the ear , disregarding the inferior senses . A taste for these arts is a plant that grows naturally in many soils ; but , without culture , scarce to per- fection in any soil : it is susceptible of much re ...
... give pleasure to the eye and the ear , disregarding the inferior senses . A taste for these arts is a plant that grows naturally in many soils ; but , without culture , scarce to per- fection in any soil : it is susceptible of much re ...
Page xxiv
... give him pain . On the other hand , a man void of taste , upon whom even striking beauties make but a faint impression , in- dulges pride or envy without controul , and loves to brood over errors and blemishes . In a word , there are ...
... give him pain . On the other hand , a man void of taste , upon whom even striking beauties make but a faint impression , in- dulges pride or envy without controul , and loves to brood over errors and blemishes . In a word , there are ...
Page xxv
... gives many rules ; but can discover no better foundation for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil , supported by the authority of Aristo- tle. * Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution ; delicacy of ...
... gives many rules ; but can discover no better foundation for any of them , than the practice merely of Homer and Virgil , supported by the authority of Aristo- tle. * Genius is allied to a warm and inflammable constitution ; delicacy of ...
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... give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will ; if in writing they followed no rule , why should they be imitated ? If they studied nature , and were obsequious to rational principles ...
... give law to mankind ; and that nothing now remains , but blind obedience to their arbitrary will ; if in writing they followed no rule , why should they be imitated ? If they studied nature , and were obsequious to rational principles ...
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Page 186 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 239 - O ! who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast? Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? O no, the apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse : Fell sorrow's tooth doth never rankle more Than when it bites, but lanceth not the sore.
Page 79 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me; And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.
Page 74 - Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii: — Look, in this place, ran Cassius* dagger through: See what a rent the envious Casca made: Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd And, as he pluck'd his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar...
Page 411 - 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 405 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 406 - Must I remember? why, she would hang on him, As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on; and yet, within a month, Let me not think on't: Frailty, thy name is woman!
Page 236 - It must not be : if Cassio do remain, ' He hath a daily beauty in his life, That makes me ugly ; and, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him ; there stand I in much peril : No, he must die : — But so, I hear him coming.
Page 400 - 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 401 - That for some vicious mole of nature in them, As, in their birth— wherein they are not guilty, Since nature cannot choose his origin— By the o'ergrowth of some complexion, Oft breaking down the pales and forts of reason...