Elements of Criticism, Volume 1J. Thompson, 1819 - Aesthetics |
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Page xi
... writers great opportunity of receiving in- struction from every quarter . The author of this treatise , having always been of opinion that the ge- neral taste is seldom wrong , was resolved from the beginning to submit to it with entire ...
... writers great opportunity of receiving in- struction from every quarter . The author of this treatise , having always been of opinion that the ge- neral taste is seldom wrong , was resolved from the beginning to submit to it with entire ...
Page xii
... writer , who must be possessed of the thought before he can put it into words , is but ill qualified to judge whether the expression be sufficiently clear to others ;. in that particular , he cannot avoid the taking on him to judge for ...
... writer , who must be possessed of the thought before he can put it into words , is but ill qualified to judge whether the expression be sufficiently clear to others ;. in that particular , he cannot avoid the taking on him to judge for ...
Page xxv
... writing or painting , in architecture or gardening , is a fine preparation for the same just relish of these qualities in character and behaviour . To the man who has acquired a taste so acute and accomplished , every action wrong or ...
... writing or painting , in architecture or gardening , is a fine preparation for the same just relish of these qualities in character and behaviour . To the man who has acquired a taste so acute and accomplished , every action wrong or ...
Page xxvi
... writing they followed no rule , why should they be imitated ? If they studied nature , and were obsequious to rational principles , why should these be concealed from us ? With respect to the present undertaking , it is not the author's ...
... writing they followed no rule , why should they be imitated ? If they studied nature , and were obsequious to rational principles , why should these be concealed from us ? With respect to the present undertaking , it is not the author's ...
Page xxvii
... Writers , one should ima- gine , ought , above all others , to be reserved on that article , when they lie so open to retaliation . The author of this treatise , far from being confident of meriting no censure , entertains not even the ...
... Writers , one should ima- gine , ought , above all others , to be reserved on that article , when they lie so open to retaliation . The author of this treatise , far from being confident of meriting no censure , entertains not even the ...
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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...