An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence, by N.A. Vigors, jun. esq1810 |
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... censured for a rigid adherence to reality , appear rather to merit applause than to need justification . Nor am I of opinion , that their practice in construct- ing their works with that historick fidelity which we discover 34.
... censured for a rigid adherence to reality , appear rather to merit applause than to need justification . Nor am I of opinion , that their practice in construct- ing their works with that historick fidelity which we discover 34.
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... censured for a rigid adherence to reality , appear rather to merit applause than to need justification . Nor am I of opinion , that their practice in construct- ing their works with that historick fidelity which we discover 31.
... censured for a rigid adherence to reality , appear rather to merit applause than to need justification . Nor am I of opinion , that their practice in construct- ing their works with that historick fidelity which we discover 31.
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... censure ap- pears to be retailed at second hand , by those writers of an inferiour class , in whom also it is found . But in carrying up our doubt of the au- thority of this maxim to its source , however imposing the names of Homer and ...
... censure ap- pears to be retailed at second hand , by those writers of an inferiour class , in whom also it is found . But in carrying up our doubt of the au- thority of this maxim to its source , however imposing the names of Homer and ...
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... censure of Voltaire . The cause of historick poets which I now espouse , is not destitute of support , and of support drawn from high authority , and founded upon just and pertinent observation . The conduct of Addison , in rejecting ...
... censure of Voltaire . The cause of historick poets which I now espouse , is not destitute of support , and of support drawn from high authority , and founded upon just and pertinent observation . The conduct of Addison , in rejecting ...
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... censure some liberties taken in this respect by Corneille and Racine in the French drama . See Reflex . Critiq . § . 29 . The critick seems to lay great stress on the authority of Aristotle , which he supposes to afford him some ...
... censure some liberties taken in this respect by Corneille and Racine in the French drama . See Reflex . Critiq . § . 29 . The critick seems to lay great stress on the authority of Aristotle , which he supposes to afford him some ...
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Страница 292 - We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honour'd me of late; and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, Which would be worn now in their newest gloss. Not cast aside so soon.
Страница 290 - Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win. Thou'dst have, great Glamis, that which cries, "Thus thou must do, if thou have it, And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Страница 288 - This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill; cannot be good : If ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, Commencing in a truth ? I am thane of Cawdor : If good, why do I yield to that suggestion...
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Страница 290 - Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; And chastise with the valour of my tongue All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crown'd withal.
Страница 228 - He spoke, and awful bends his sable brows, Shakes his ambrosial curls, and gives the nod, The stamp of fate, and sanction of the god : High Heaven with trembling the dread signal took, And all Olympus to the centre shook.
Страница 296 - That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.