The Works of Richard Hurd, Lord Bishop of Worcester: Critical worksT. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1811 |
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... . Yet this is the taste of our comedy . Our writers are all for plot and intrigue ; and never appear so well satisfied with themselves as when , to In So which opinion throws round the persons of princes THE DRAMA . 45.
... . Yet this is the taste of our comedy . Our writers are all for plot and intrigue ; and never appear so well satisfied with themselves as when , to In So which opinion throws round the persons of princes THE DRAMA . 45.
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... Spanish fable . Yet this is the taste of our comedy . Our writers are all for plot and intrigue ; and never appear so well satisfied with themselves as when , to speak in their own phrase , they contrive to have THE DRAMA . 45.
... Spanish fable . Yet this is the taste of our comedy . Our writers are all for plot and intrigue ; and never appear so well satisfied with themselves as when , to speak in their own phrase , they contrive to have THE DRAMA . 45.
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... never fail to profess their wonder and . approbation of it . - On this idea of excellence Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS must be said to contain a set of the justest moral portraits : And the CHARACTERS of Theophrastus might be ...
... never fail to profess their wonder and . approbation of it . - On this idea of excellence Le Brun's book of the PASSIONS must be said to contain a set of the justest moral portraits : And the CHARACTERS of Theophrastus might be ...
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... never be endured , under the name of " comedy , on the stage . Nay , such repre 7 : 1 " sentations would rather pass , in the public judgment , for legitimate tragedies ; of which " kind , we have , indeed , some examples in our ...
... never be endured , under the name of " comedy , on the stage . Nay , such repre 7 : 1 " sentations would rather pass , in the public judgment , for legitimate tragedies ; of which " kind , we have , indeed , some examples in our ...
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... never admit the " terrible or noble . But it is otherwise , he a6 conceives , with the intermediate species of " this scale . The singular , the pitiable , the " tender , which fill up the interval betwixt the " noble and ridiculous ...
... never admit the " terrible or noble . But it is otherwise , he a6 conceives , with the intermediate species of " this scale . The singular , the pitiable , the " tender , which fill up the interval betwixt the " noble and ridiculous ...
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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.