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... heroes old Arming to battle , and instead of rage Deliberate valor breathed , firm , and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat ; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts , and chase ...
... heroes old Arming to battle , and instead of rage Deliberate valor breathed , firm , and unmoved With dread of death to flight or foul retreat ; Nor wanting power to mitigate and swage With solemn touches troubled thoughts , and chase ...
Page 76
... heroes who are ethically no worse than the heroes of Greece ; but they sing without the genius of Homer . of content is not primarily aesthetic ; and it is 76 GENERAL ASPECTS OF POETRY.
... heroes who are ethically no worse than the heroes of Greece ; but they sing without the genius of Homer . of content is not primarily aesthetic ; and it is 76 GENERAL ASPECTS OF POETRY.
Page 95
... hero without a flaw , according to Aristotle , is incapable of arousing pity and fear , and hence is unsuited to tragedy . In the present case , do not the an- gelic spectators transform , and in a measure invalidate , the ends of ...
... hero without a flaw , according to Aristotle , is incapable of arousing pity and fear , and hence is unsuited to tragedy . In the present case , do not the an- gelic spectators transform , and in a measure invalidate , the ends of ...
Page 96
... hero , be a man marked by some tendency to error , and predisposed in some degree to ' all our woe.'1 Aristotle's doctrine on the end of tragedy has generally held its own in the face of all sorts of structural changes in the drama ...
... hero , be a man marked by some tendency to error , and predisposed in some degree to ' all our woe.'1 Aristotle's doctrine on the end of tragedy has generally held its own in the face of all sorts of structural changes in the drama ...
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... hero's fortunes takes place without peripety or discovery ; and complex , when it involves one or the other or both . " And later : ' We assume that , for the finest form of Tragedy the plot must be not simple but complex . " The plot ...
... hero's fortunes takes place without peripety or discovery ; and complex , when it involves one or the other or both . " And later : ' We assume that , for the finest form of Tragedy the plot must be not simple but complex . " The plot ...
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Page 175 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 271 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Page 237 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 17 - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun,— Before the Heavens thou wert ; and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 307 - I deny not, but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth, to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors...
Page 36 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 206 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, — Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony, — That Orpheus...
Page 198 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 200 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose ; Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant...
Page 22 - Their dread commander : he, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appeared Less than arch-angel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...