Essays: on the Nature and Immutability of Truth, in Opposition to Sophistry and Scepticism: On Poetry and Musick, as They Affect the Mind; on Laughter, and Ludicrous Composition; on the Utility of Classical Learning, Том 6Hopkins & Earle, 1809 |
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... give a view of nature similar to , but somewhat different from the reality : so , in forming poetical language , they must take for their model human speech , not in that imperfect state wherein it is used on the common occasions of ...
... give a view of nature similar to , but somewhat different from the reality : so , in forming poetical language , they must take for their model human speech , not in that imperfect state wherein it is used on the common occasions of ...
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... give no ground to suspect the author of ignorance , or want of taste . Good language is determinate and absolute . We know it wherever we meet with it ; we may learn to speak and write it from books alone . Whether pronounced by a clown ...
... give no ground to suspect the author of ignorance , or want of taste . Good language is determinate and absolute . We know it wherever we meet with it ; we may learn to speak and write it from books alone . Whether pronounced by a clown ...
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... give the same uniform colour of language to them all , the style of that comedy , however elegant , would be unnatural . Our language is also affect- ed by the very thoughts we utter . When these are lofty or groveling , there is a ...
... give the same uniform colour of language to them all , the style of that comedy , however elegant , would be unnatural . Our language is also affect- ed by the very thoughts we utter . When these are lofty or groveling , there is a ...
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... give a peculiarity to human thought , and must there- fore diversify the modes of human language . I * Hor . Ar . Poet . vers . 322-332 . Longinus , sect . 9. 44 . will not say , as some have done , that 10 Part II . ON POETRY.
... give a peculiarity to human thought , and must there- fore diversify the modes of human language . I * Hor . Ar . Poet . vers . 322-332 . Longinus , sect . 9. 44 . will not say , as some have done , that 10 Part II . ON POETRY.
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... gives a detail of ordinary events , or re- capitulates , in his own style and manner , the sentiments of an illiterate peasant . So that in the epick poem , ( and in all serious poetry , narrative or didactick , wherein the poet is the ...
... gives a detail of ordinary events , or re- capitulates , in his own style and manner , the sentiments of an illiterate peasant . So that in the epick poem , ( and in all serious poetry , narrative or didactick , wherein the poet is the ...
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