English Critical Essays (sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries) Selected and Ed. by Edmund D. JonesEdmund David Jones H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1922 - 460 Seiten |
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... praise of his faculty . He said , soldiers were the noblest estate of mankind , and horsemen the noblest of soldiers ... praises , by telling what a peerless beast a horse was , the only serviceable courtier without flattery , the beast ...
... praise of his faculty . He said , soldiers were the noblest estate of mankind , and horsemen the noblest of soldiers ... praises , by telling what a peerless beast a horse was , the only serviceable courtier without flattery , the beast ...
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... praises of their gods - a sufficient probability that , if ever learning come among them , it must be by having their hard dull wits softened and sharpened with the sweet delights of Poetry . For until they find a pleasure in the ...
... praises of their gods - a sufficient probability that , if ever learning come among them , it must be by having their hard dull wits softened and sharpened with the sweet delights of Poetry . For until they find a pleasure in the ...
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... praise as the etymology of his names will grant , yet his very description , which no man will deny , shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation . Poesy therefore is an art of imitation , for so Aristotle termeth it in his ...
... praise as the etymology of his names will grant , yet his very description , which no man will deny , shall not justly be barred from a principal commendation . Poesy therefore is an art of imitation , for so Aristotle termeth it in his ...
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... praise of histories , in respect of the notable learning is gotten by marking the success , as though therein a man should see virtue exalted and vice punished - truly that commendation is peculiar to Poetry , and far off from History ...
... praise of histories , in respect of the notable learning is gotten by marking the success , as though therein a man should see virtue exalted and vice punished - truly that commendation is peculiar to Poetry , and far off from History ...
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... praise , the reward of virtue , to virtuous acts , who gives moral precepts , and natural problems , who sometimes raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens , in singing the lauds of the immortal God ? Certainly , I must confess ...
... praise , the reward of virtue , to virtuous acts , who gives moral precepts , and natural problems , who sometimes raiseth up his voice to the height of the heavens , in singing the lauds of the immortal God ? Certainly , I must confess ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
action admiration Aeneas Aeneid ancients Anne Brontë Aristotle beauties Ben Jonson better blank verse character Charlotte Brontë Chaucer comedy commendation composition conceit Crites critics delight discourse divine doth Dryden E. V. LUCAS English epic Eugenius excellent fable Faerie Queene fame fancy father fault French genius give glory Gothic Greek hath heroic Homer honour Horace humour Iliad imagination imitation Intro invention Jonson judge judgement kind labour language Latin learning Lisideius manner Milton mind modern Muse nature never noble numbers observed Ovid Paradise Lost passion perfection perhaps persons philosopher play plot poem Poesy poet poetical poetry praise prose reader reason rhyme Roman rules scene sense sentiments Shakespeare Silent Woman sometimes speak spirit stage stanza syllables THEODORE WATTS-DUNTON things thought tion tragedy translated Trochee truth Virgil virtue words write written
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Seite 103 - For though the Poet's matter Nature be His art doth give the fashion. And that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat (Such as thine are), and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Seite 240 - In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Seite 92 - The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.
Seite 432 - Church-yard' abounds with images which find a mirror in every mind, and with sentiments to which every bosom returns an echo.
Seite 241 - Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds ; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire, While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line : While they ring round the same unvaried chimes, With sure returns of still expected rhymes ; Where'er you find " the cooling western breeze...
Seite 96 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory on this 'side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature ; had an excellent fantasy, braye notions, and gentle expressions, wherein he flowed with that facility that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped.
Seite 40 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place: then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave: while in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Seite 235 - Some beauties yet no precepts can declare, For there's a happiness as well as care. Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master-hand alone can reach.