Elements of criticism [by H. Home].Bell & Bradfute, A. Constable & Company, and J. Fairbairn, [and others], 1817 - Criticism - 515 pages |
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... Language copies not from nature , more than music or architecture ; unless where , like music , it is imitative of sound or mo- tion . Thus , in the description of particular sounds , language sometimes furnisheth words , which , be ...
... Language copies not from nature , more than music or architecture ; unless where , like music , it is imitative of sound or mo- tion . Thus , in the description of particular sounds , language sometimes furnisheth words , which , be ...
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... Language possesseth a beauty supe- rior greatly in degree , of which we are eminently sensible when a thought is communicated with perspicuity and sprightliness . This beauty of language , arising from its power of expressing thought ...
... Language possesseth a beauty supe- rior greatly in degree , of which we are eminently sensible when a thought is communicated with perspicuity and sprightliness . This beauty of language , arising from its power of expressing thought ...
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... language can afford , when the subject expressed is disagreeable a thing that is loathsome , or a scene of horror to make one's hair stand on end , may be described in a manner so lively , as that the dis- agreeableness of the subject ...
... language can afford , when the subject expressed is disagreeable a thing that is loathsome , or a scene of horror to make one's hair stand on end , may be described in a manner so lively , as that the dis- agreeableness of the subject ...
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... Language with respect to Sound . THIS subject requires the following order : The sounds of the different letters come first ; next , these sounds as united in syllables ; third , syllables united in words ; fourth , words united in a ...
... Language with respect to Sound . THIS subject requires the following order : The sounds of the different letters come first ; next , these sounds as united in syllables ; third , syllables united in words ; fourth , words united in a ...
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... language intricate and difficult to be attained in any perfection ; and this selection , at the same time , would abridge the number of useful sounds , so as perhaps not to leave sufficient for answering the different ends of language ...
... language intricate and difficult to be attained in any perfection ; and this selection , at the same time , would abridge the number of useful sounds , so as perhaps not to leave sufficient for answering the different ends of language ...
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Page 299 - Let me play the Fool : With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come ; And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man whose blood is warm within Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster...
Page 171 - God save him ; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home : But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which, with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Page 230 - And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth : so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then shall thy seed also be numbered.
Page 210 - For within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Keeps death his court ; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state, and grinning at his pomp...
Page 163 - Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.
Page 182 - Romeo: and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.
Page 316 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 249 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
Page 244 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
Page 298 - I saw young Harry, with his beaver on, His cuisses on his thighs, gallantly arm'd, Rise from the ground like feather'd Mercury, And vaulted with such ease into his seat As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship.