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... epic composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure which we derive ...
... epic composition , were not first discovered by logical reasoning , and then applied to poetry ; but they were deduced from the practice of Homer and Sophocles . They were founded upon observing the superior pleasure which we derive ...
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... epic poetry , Homer and Virgil are still unrivall- ed ; and orators , equal to Demosthenes and Cicero , we have none . In history we have no modern nar- ration so elegant , so picturesque , so animated and in- teresting , as those of ...
... epic poetry , Homer and Virgil are still unrivall- ed ; and orators , equal to Demosthenes and Cicero , we have none . In history we have no modern nar- ration so elegant , so picturesque , so animated and in- teresting , as those of ...
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... epic poem and the drama , are all reduced to rule , and exercise the acuteness of criticism . ENGLISH VERSIFICATION : NATIONS , whose language and pronunciation were musical , rested their versification chiefly on the quan- tities of ...
... epic poem and the drama , are all reduced to rule , and exercise the acuteness of criticism . ENGLISH VERSIFICATION : NATIONS , whose language and pronunciation were musical , rested their versification chiefly on the quan- tities of ...
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... epic poem , and for tragedy . Rhyme finds its proper place in the middle regions of poetry ; and blank verse in the highest . The present form of our English heroic rhyme , in couplets , is modern . The measure used in the days of ...
... epic poem , and for tragedy . Rhyme finds its proper place in the middle regions of poetry ; and blank verse in the highest . The present form of our English heroic rhyme , in couplets , is modern . The measure used in the days of ...
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... epic poem . But in every composition there ought to be a whole ; and this whole should consist of con- nected parts . The transition from thought to thought may be light and delicate , but the connexion of ideas should be preserved ...
... epic poem . But in every composition there ought to be a whole ; and this whole should consist of con- nected parts . The transition from thought to thought may be light and delicate , but the connexion of ideas should be preserved ...
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abounds action admit advantage Æneid ancient appear arguments attention Balclutha beauty blank verse characters chiefly Cicero circumstances comedy composition concise critics degree Demosthenes dignity discourse distinction distinguished effect elegant eloquence emotion employed English epic poem epic poetry example excel exhibit expression faults figure frequently genius give grace Greek hearers Hence Henriade Homer human ideas Iliad imagination imitation instance introduced Jane Shore ject kind language LECTURE Lucan Lusiad manner merit metaphors Milton mind mode modern moral narration nature never objects observed orator oratory ornament Paradise Lost passion pastoral pathetic pause peculiar perspicuity Pharsalia pleasing pleasure poet poetical preacher proper propriety public speaking racter render requisite resemblance ridicule Roman rule scene sense sentence sentiments simplicity sion sound speaker species speech spirit strength style sublime syllable Tacitus taste tence Theocritus thing thought tion tragedy tropes unity variety verbs verse Virgil what?-What words writing
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Page 215 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm.
Page 219 - Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped: then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Page 87 - But yonder comes the powerful King of Day, Rejoicing in the east. The lessening cloud, The kindling azure, and the mountain's brow Illumed with fluid gold, his near approach Betoken glad.
Page 128 - He can converse with a Picture, and find an agreeable Companion in a Statue. He meets with a secret Refreshment in a Description, and often feels a greater Satisfaction in the Prospect of Fields and Meadows, than another does in the Possession. It gives him, indeed, a kind of Property in every thing he sees...
Page 219 - He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God ; and he shall be as the light of the morning, when the sun riseth, even a morning without clouds ; as the tender grass springing out of the earth by clear shining after rain.
Page 22 - He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
Page 124 - We cannot indeed have a single image in the fancy that did not make its first entrance through the sight; but we have the power of retaining, altering, and compounding those images which we have once received, into all the varieties of picture and vision that are most agreeable to the imagination...
Page 19 - Look then abroad through Nature, to the range Of planets, suns, and adamantine spheres, Wheeling unshaken through the void immense ; And speak, O man ! does this capacious scene With half that kindling majesty dilate Thy strong conception, as when Brutus rose Refulgent from the stroke of Caesar's fate, Amid the crowd of patriots ; and his arm Aloft extending, like eternal Jove When guilt brings down the thunder, call'd aloud On Tully's name, and shook his crimson steel, And bade the father of his...
Page 96 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 23 - Thus saith the LORD, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the LORD that maketh all things ; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone ; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself...