A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day: From the renaissance to the decline of eighteenth century orthodoxyW. Blackwood and Sons, 1902 |
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Seite 492 - Churchyard" abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo. The four stanzas, beginning "Yet even these bones," are to me original; I have never seen the notions in any other place, yet he that reads them here persuades himself that he has always felt them. Had Gray written often thus, it had been vain to blame and useless to praise him.
Seite 193 - This grew speedily to an excess; for men began to hunt more after words than matter; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.
Seite 483 - It ought to be the first Endeavour of a Writer to distinguish Nature from Custom, or that which is established because it is right, from that which is right only because it is established...
Seite 471 - The word eloquence, in its greatest latitude, denotes " that art or talent by which the discourse is adapted to its end...
Seite 194 - For being as a plant that cometh of the lust of the earth, without a formal seed, it hath sprung up and spread abroad more than any other kind. But to ascribe unto it that which is due ; for the expressing of affections, passions, corruptions, and customs, we are beholding to poets more than to the philosophers' works ; and for wit and eloquence not much less than to orators
Seite 444 - Rome, and how his imagination is filled with something great and amazing; and, at the same time, consider how little, in proportion, he is affected* with the inside of a Gothic cathedral, though it be five times larger than the other; which can arise from nothing else, but the greatness of the manner in the one, and the meanness in the other.
Seite 484 - And yet it fills me with wonder that, in almost all countries, the most ancient poets are considered as the best. Whether it be that every other kind of knowledge is an acquisition gradually attained and poetry is a gift conferred at once, or that the first poetry of every nation surprised them as a novelty and retained the credit by consent, which it received by accident at first...
Seite 202 - Spenser, in affecting the ancients, writ no language ; yet I would have him read for his matter, but as Virgil read Ennius.
Seite 480 - ... are soon wearied with the perpetual recurrence of the same cadence. Necessity has therefore enforced the mixed measure, in which some variation of the accents is allowed; this, though it always injures the harmony of the line considered by itself...