Elements of Criticism: Volume I [-II].A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh., 1765 |
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... proportion to the principal fubject . Their remarkable difparity , being the most stri- king circumstance , feizes the mind , and never . fails to deprefs the principal fubject by contrast , instead of raising it by refemblance and if ...
... proportion to the principal fubject . Their remarkable difparity , being the most stri- king circumstance , feizes the mind , and never . fails to deprefs the principal fubject by contrast , instead of raising it by refemblance and if ...
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... proportion : where a very high and a very low fubject are compared , the fimile takes on an air of burlesk ; and the fame will be the effect , where the one is imagined to be the other , as in a metaphor ; or made to re- prefent the ...
... proportion : where a very high and a very low fubject are compared , the fimile takes on an air of burlesk ; and the fame will be the effect , where the one is imagined to be the other , as in a metaphor ; or made to re- prefent the ...
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... proportion to the figurative fenfe , and not foar much above it , nor fink much be- low it . This rule , as well as the foregoing , is finely illuftrated by Vida : Hæc adeo cum fint , cum fas audere poetis Multa modis multis ; tamen ...
... proportion to the figurative fenfe , and not foar much above it , nor fink much be- low it . This rule , as well as the foregoing , is finely illuftrated by Vida : Hæc adeo cum fint , cum fas audere poetis Multa modis multis ; tamen ...
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... proportion , and the beauties that refult from them , are still more confpicuous than in gardening : but as to the beauty of colour , architecture is far inferior . Grandeur can be expreffed in a building , perhaps more fuccessfully ...
... proportion , and the beauties that refult from them , are still more confpicuous than in gardening : but as to the beauty of colour , architecture is far inferior . Grandeur can be expreffed in a building , perhaps more fuccessfully ...
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... proportion to the distance from the house confidered as the centre , regularity ought lefs The influence of this connection furpaffing all bounds , is vi- fible in many gardens , remaining to this day , formed of horizontal plains forc ...
... proportion to the distance from the house confidered as the centre , regularity ought lefs The influence of this connection furpaffing all bounds , is vi- fible in many gardens , remaining to this day , formed of horizontal plains forc ...
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Seite 184 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Seite 327 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Seite 234 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Seite 277 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Seite 234 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Seite 312 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Seite 235 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge, And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafening clamour in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes...
Seite 332 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Seite 432 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Seite 277 - And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard : I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; And break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down...