An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...W.J. and J. Richardson, 1806 - 416 pages |
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... expressed by selecting such circumstances as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly consti- tutes true poetry . An historian , or prose- writer , might say , " Then shall the most ...
... expressed by selecting such circumstances as are best adapted to strike the imagination by lively pictures ; the selection of which chiefly consti- tutes true poetry . An historian , or prose- writer , might say , " Then shall the most ...
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... expressed with a beautiful brevity and abruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode : sbit Hark ! Hæmus resounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah ! see he dies ! Yet even in death Eurydice he sung . Instead of sung , Virgil says vocabat ...
... expressed with a beautiful brevity and abruptness , suitable to the nature of the ode : sbit Hark ! Hæmus resounds with the Bacchanals cries , Ah ! see he dies ! Yet even in death Eurydice he sung . Instead of sung , Virgil says vocabat ...
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... expression , the accompagnient of the picture . " * I thought it more equitable , as well as more convincing , to quote at large the words of this admirable critic , whose work is one of the most valuable that his elegant nation has ...
... expression , the accompagnient of the picture . " * I thought it more equitable , as well as more convincing , to quote at large the words of this admirable critic , whose work is one of the most valuable that his elegant nation has ...
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... annos ferent , et ve- tustate proficient . " This is very strong and mas- culine sense , expressed and enlivened by a train of * Lib . ii . Instit . Cap . 4. ad init . of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well 82 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
... annos ferent , et ve- tustate proficient . " This is very strong and mas- culine sense , expressed and enlivened by a train of * Lib . ii . Instit . Cap . 4. ad init . of metaphors , all of them elegant , and well 82 ESSAY ON THE GENIUS.
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... expressed in a more chaste and subdued style . The former will frequently be hurried into obscurity or tur- gidity , and a false grandeur of diction ; the lat- ter will seldom hazard a figure , whose usage is not already established ...
... expressed in a more chaste and subdued style . The former will frequently be hurried into obscurity or tur- gidity , and a false grandeur of diction ; the lat- ter will seldom hazard a figure , whose usage is not already established ...
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Page 145 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 224 - Be kind and courteous to this gentleman ; Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes ; Feed him with apricocks and dewberries, -. With purple grapes, green figs, and mulberries. The honey-bags steal from the humble-bees, And for night-tapers crop their waxen thighs, And light them at the fiery glow-worm's eyes...
Page 134 - Alps we try, Mount o'er the vales, and seem to tread the sky, Th' eternal snows appear already past, And the first clouds and mountains seem the last: But, those attain'd, we tremble to survey The growing labours of the lengthen'd way, Th' increasing prospect tires our wand'ring eyes.
Page 7 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old Bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wisard stream : Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there...
Page 315 - But o'er the twilight groves and dusky caves, Long-sounding aisles and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence, and a dread repose : Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades every flower, and darkens every green ; Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Page 220 - Repairs her smiles, awakens every grace, And calls forth all the wonders of her face ; Sees by degrees a purer blush arise, And keener lightnings quicken in her eyes. The busy sylphs surround their darling care, These set the head, and those divide the hair, Some fold the sleeve, whilst others plait the gown ; And Betty's prais'd for labours not her own. CANTO II. NOT with more glories, in th...
Page 390 - 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 223 - On the bat's back I do fly After summer merrily. Merrily, merrily shall I live now Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Page 130 - From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art, Which without passing thro' the judgment, gains The heart, and all its end at once attains.
Page 148 - Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek, We write in sand, our language grows, And like the tide our work o'erflows.