An inquiry into the nature and extent of poetick licence, by N.A. Vigors, jun. esq1810 |
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... adoption , while at the same time it specifies the end which ought to be sought in every deviation from science . " The prac- tice of the poet in feigning any thing , " says the critick , " which is impossible according to science 14.
... adoption , while at the same time it specifies the end which ought to be sought in every deviation from science . " The prac- tice of the poet in feigning any thing , " says the critick , " which is impossible according to science 14.
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... adopting its matter and language ; and this 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 ...
... adopting its matter and language ; and this 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 ...
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... receives the sanction of the criticks as unexceptionable , and definitive ; but as a suffrage singularly appropriate in favour of his fidelity , we may adduce , in Florus , the testimony of an historian , who has adopted his narrative 43.
... receives the sanction of the criticks as unexceptionable , and definitive ; but as a suffrage singularly appropriate in favour of his fidelity , we may adduce , in Florus , the testimony of an historian , who has adopted his narrative 43.
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Frederick Nolan. testimony of an historian , who has adopted his narrative as affording sufficient grounds for his ... adopt even those which are of inferiour cer- tainty , provided they have some credit , and afford any thing to heighten ...
Frederick Nolan. testimony of an historian , who has adopted his narrative as affording sufficient grounds for his ... adopt even those which are of inferiour cer- tainty , provided they have some credit , and afford any thing to heighten ...
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... adopt His piety the country round beheld , And bright with fires shone Canna's fatal field . But Cæsar's rage from fiercer motives rose ; These were his countrymen , his worst of foes . Ib . vii . v . 1121 . a different mode of ...
... adopt His piety the country round beheld , And bright with fires shone Canna's fatal field . But Cæsar's rage from fiercer motives rose ; These were his countrymen , his worst of foes . Ib . vii . v . 1121 . a different mode of ...
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Page 284 - Be lion-mettled, proud and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.
Page 267 - Tis strange, my Theseus, that these lovers speak of? The. More strange than true. I never may believe These antique fables, nor these fairy toys. Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 202 - And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they offered unto the idols of Canaan ; and the land was defiled with blood.
Page 296 - With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed: Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life , which must not yield To one of woman born.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 296 - That palter with us in a double sense, That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.