Elements of Criticism, Volym 2J. Bell and W. Creech, 1788 |
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... abstract fubject , than would other- wife be my inclination . In nature , tho ' a fubject cannot exift without its qualities , nor a quality without a fubject ; yet in our conception of thefe , a material difference may be remarked . I ...
... abstract fubject , than would other- wife be my inclination . In nature , tho ' a fubject cannot exift without its qualities , nor a quality without a fubject ; yet in our conception of thefe , a material difference may be remarked . I ...
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... bite of a crocodile ; but in fuch comparisons these abstract terms must be imagined fenfible beings . To have a juft notion of comparisons , they muft must be distinguished into two kinds ; one com- mon 186 Ch . XIX . COMPARISONS .
... bite of a crocodile ; but in fuch comparisons these abstract terms must be imagined fenfible beings . To have a juft notion of comparisons , they muft must be distinguished into two kinds ; one com- mon 186 Ch . XIX . COMPARISONS .
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... Abstract and general terms , as well as particu- lar objects , are often neceffary in Poetry . Such terms however are not well adapted to poetry , because they fuggeft not any image : I can rea- dily form an image of Alexander or ...
... Abstract and general terms , as well as particu- lar objects , are often neceffary in Poetry . Such terms however are not well adapted to poetry , because they fuggeft not any image : I can rea- dily form an image of Alexander or ...
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... a hand is infufferable , efpecially in a plain narration : not to mention that fuch a trivial incident is too minutely defcribed . The The fame obfervation is applicable to abstract terms , which 246 Ch . XX . FIGURE - S .
... a hand is infufferable , efpecially in a plain narration : not to mention that fuch a trivial incident is too minutely defcribed . The The fame obfervation is applicable to abstract terms , which 246 Ch . XX . FIGURE - S .
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Lord Henry Home Kames. The fame obfervation is applicable to abstract terms , which ought not to be animated unless they have fome natural dignity . Thomson , in this article , is licentious ; witnefs the following inftances ... abstract ...
Lord Henry Home Kames. The fame obfervation is applicable to abstract terms , which ought not to be animated unless they have fome natural dignity . Thomson , in this article , is licentious ; witnefs the following inftances ... abstract ...
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Sida 337 - There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond, And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit; As who should say, " I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark...
Sida 317 - Why, well; Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Sida 281 - What could have been done more to my vineyard, That I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, Brought it forth wild grapes?
Sida 332 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, Knew you not POmpey? Many a time and oft Have you climb'd up to walls and battlements, To towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, Your infants in your arms, and there have sat The livelong day, with patient expectation, To see great POmpey pass the streets of Rome...
Sida 364 - I'll give my jewels, for a set of beads ; My gorgeous palace, for a hermitage ; My gay apparel, for an alms-man's gown ; My...
Sida 187 - Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.
Sida 237 - To monarchize, be fear'd and kill with looks, Infusing him with self and vain conceit, As if this flesh which walls about our life Were brass impregnable, and...
Sida 192 - A blank, my lord : She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought ; And, with a green and yellow melancholy, She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Sida 197 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Sida 279 - Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.