The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... less account in this way of composition , than the liveliness of it , poetry , as such , will delight in tropes and figures , and those the most strongly and forceably expressed . And though the application of figures will admit of ...
... less account in this way of composition , than the liveliness of it , poetry , as such , will delight in tropes and figures , and those the most strongly and forceably expressed . And though the application of figures will admit of ...
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... professes to be , that is , will not accomplish its own purpose , unless it delight the ear with numbers , or , in other words , un- less it be cloathed in VERSE . 1 The reader , I dare say , has hitherto gone UNIVERSAL POETRY . 11.
... professes to be , that is , will not accomplish its own purpose , unless it delight the ear with numbers , or , in other words , un- less it be cloathed in VERSE . 1 The reader , I dare say , has hitherto gone UNIVERSAL POETRY . 11.
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... less at this conclusion , if he reflect on the origin and first application of poetry among all nations . It is every where of the most early growth , preceding every other sort of composition ; and being destined for the ear , that is ...
... less at this conclusion , if he reflect on the origin and first application of poetry among all nations . It is every where of the most early growth , preceding every other sort of composition ; and being destined for the ear , that is ...
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... less defects ) they can , at most , be considered but as hasty , imperfect , and abortive` poems ; whether spawned from the dramatic , or nar- rative species , it may be hard to say- Unfinish'd things , one knows not what to call ...
... less defects ) they can , at most , be considered but as hasty , imperfect , and abortive` poems ; whether spawned from the dramatic , or nar- rative species , it may be hard to say- Unfinish'd things , one knows not what to call ...
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... avoided by good writers ; while in others , as in all the modern ones , where these consonances are less frequent , and where the quantity of syllables is not so distinctly marked as , of itself , UNIVERSAL POETRY . 21.
... avoided by good writers ; while in others , as in all the modern ones , where these consonances are less frequent , and where the quantity of syllables is not so distinctly marked as , of itself , UNIVERSAL POETRY . 21.
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Страница 250 - Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of Truth, in endless Error hurl'd: The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!
Страница 238 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, 460 The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal ; but when lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Страница 239 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Страница 246 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Страница 237 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become • A kneaded clod...
Страница 127 - Tout est dit : et l'on vient trop tard depuis plus de sept mille ans qu'il ya des hommes, et qui pensent.
Страница 270 - When the loose mountain trembles from on high, Shall gravitation cease, if you go by? Or some old temple, nodding to its fall, For Chartres' head reserve the hanging wall?
Страница 264 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Страница 250 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Страница 241 - Sirens' harmony, That sit upon the nine infolded spheres, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the adamantine spindle round On which the fate of gods and men is wound.