 | Longinus, William Smith - Authors, Greek - 1752 - 242 pages
...eafily difcover the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds, that it tranfports not his foul, nor exalts his thoughts; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what the mere founds of the words convey, but on attentive examination its dignity leffens... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1771 - 424 pages
...upon our minds, whea " read or recited. " If, fays he, a perfon finds, that ' a performance tranfports not his foul, nor exalts his ' thoughts; that it calls not up into his mind ideas • more enlarged than the mere founds of the words convey, but on attentive examination its dignity leffens... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1795 - 418 pages
...our minds, when read or " recited." " If, fays he, a perfon finds, that a perform" ance tranfports not his foul, nor exalts his thoughts; '" that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged " than the mere founds of the words convey, but on at" tentive examination its dignity kffens... | |
 | Longinus - Aesthetics - 1800 - 238 pages
...has a competent share of natural and acquired taste, may easily discover the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what the... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1833 - 528 pages
...a competent share of natural and acquired taste may easily distinguish the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts, — that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what... | |
 | James Montgomery - Literature - 1838 - 332 pages
...a competent share of natural and acquired taste may easily distinguish the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts, — that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1842 - 700 pages
...competent share? of natural and acquired taste may easily distinguish the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts ; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what the... | |
 | Andrew Ashfield, Peter de Bolla - Literary Collections - 1996 - 332 pages
...has a competent share of natural and acquired taste, may easily discover the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds, that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts; that it calls not up into his mind ideas more enlarged than what the... | |
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He therefore who has a competent share of natural and acquired taste, may easily discover the value of any performance from a bare recital of it. If he finds that it transports not his soul, nor exalts his thoughts; that it calls not up into his mind... 