Pleasures of LiteratureBell and Daldy, 1860 - 231 Seiten |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Æneid allegory amusement Ariosto Aristophanes beauty Ben Jonson Biography bloom Boccaccio called character charm cloud colour comedy Constantinople Criticism Dante dark delight Demosthenes discourse Dryden Dunciad enjoy Essay Faëry Queen fame fancy feeling Fiction flame flowers garden gaze Genius glimmer glory grace Greek hand heart historian History Homer Horace humour Iliad imagination Jeremy Collier Johnson Knight landscape learning letters light live Livy look lustre magnificent ment Milton mind Montesquieu moral never painted painter palace Paradise Lost passions pencil Petrarch philosopher picture Pindar Plato pleasant PLEASURES OF LITERATURE Plutarch poem poet poetical Poetry Polybius Pope portraits prose Raffaelle reader Romance rose scholar sentiment sermon shade shadow Shakspere solemn soul Southey Spenser splendour stanza story summer sweet Tacitus tale Tasso Taste thought Thucydides Tintoretto tion Titian trees verse Virgil walk Warton watch writer youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 104 - Hell-doomed, and breath'st defiance here and scorn, Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more, Thy king and lord ? Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or with one stroke of this dart Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Seite 9 - Where a new world leaps out at his command, And ready nature waits upon his hand ; When the ripe colours soften and unite, And sweetly melt into just shade and light ; When mellowing years their full perfection give( And each bold figure just begins to live, The treacherous colours the fair art betray, And all the bright creation fades away...
Seite 178 - tis the twanging horn ! o'er yonder bridge That with its wearisome but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright ; He comes, the herald of a noisy world. With spattered boots, strapped waist, and frozen locks. News from all nations lumbering at his back.
Seite 115 - Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did...
Seite 205 - What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise To hear the lute well touched, or artful voice Warble immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and spare To interpose them oft, is not unwise.
Seite 70 - Begirt with British and Armoric knights ; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond, Or whom Biserta sent from Afric shore, When Charlemain with all his peerage fell By Fontarabia.
Seite 196 - Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there In happier beauty ; more pellucid streams, An ampler ether, a diviner air, And fields invested with purpureal gleams ; Climes which the sun, who sheds the brightest day Earth knows, is all unworthy to survey. Yet there the soul shall enter which hath earned That privilege by virtue.
Seite 114 - A JUST AND LIVELY IMAGE OF HUMAN NATURE, REPRESENTING ITS PASSIONS AND HUMOURS; AND THE CHANGES OF FORTUNE, TO WHICH IT IS SUBJECT: FOR THE DELIGHT AND INSTRUCTION OF MANKIND.
Seite 144 - Vice, for vice is necessary to be shown, should always disgust ; nor should the graces of gaiety, or the dignity of courage, be so united with it, as to reconcile it to the mind. Wherever it appears, it should raise hatred by the malignity of its practices, and contempt by the meanness of its stratagems : for while it is supported by either parts or spirit, it will be seldom heartily abhorred.