 ... wants that exaltation above common life, which in tragick or heroick writings often reconciles us to bold flights and daring figures. Pastoral being the 'representation of an action or passion, by its effects upon a country life', has nothing peculiar...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 283edited by - 1779Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 466 pages
...and daring figures. Pastoral being the representation of an action or passion, by its effects upon a country life, has nothing .». peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral. This is its true characteristic, and this it cannot lose by any dignity of sentiment... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 472 pages
...daring figures. Pastoral being the representation of an action or passion, by its effects upon a eountry life, has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral. This is its true character] stick, and this it cannot lose by any dignity of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 526 pages
...and daring figures. Pastoral being the representation of an action or passion, by its effects upon a country life, has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral. This is its true characteristick, and this it cannot lose by any dignity of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...and daring figures. Pastoral being the representation of an action or passion, by it» effects upon ceases to be pastoral. This is its true characteristic, and this it cannot lose by any dignity of sentiment,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...and daring figures. Pastoral being the representation of an action or patsimi, by its effects upon a country life, has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral. This is its true characteristic, and this it cannot lose by any dignity of sentiment,... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 168 pages
...pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life, and has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral.' Hence he thinks those writers are wrong who insist upon a golden age, meanness... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 178 pages
...pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life, and has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral.' Hence he thinks those writers are wrong who insist upon a golden age, meanness... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 1874 - 168 pages
...pastoral is a poem in which any action or passion is represented by its effects upon a country life, and has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral.' Hence he thinks those writers are wrong who insist upon a golden age, meanness... | |
 | Heinrich Oskar Sommer - English poetry - 1888 - 142 pages
...not pastoral." Ferner: Pastoral being the representation of an action or passion by its effects on country life, has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceazes to be pastoral." Endlich Integer (pseud.) im „Mirrour' meint: „A pastoral ought in my opinion... | |
 | Octavius Francis Christie - 1924 - 296 pages
...sixteen years of age). ORIGIN OF PASTORAL 65 representation of an action or passion, by its effects upon a country life, has nothing peculiar but its confinement to rural imagery, without which it ceases to be pastoral. . . . It is therefore improper to give the title of a pastoral to verses, in... | |
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