The Art of Poetry on a New Plan: Illustrated with a Great Variety of Examples from the Best English Poets ; and of Translations from the Ancients ...Gregg International Publishers Limited, 1762 - 252 páginas |
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... great taste and judgment S. Verfifica- tion , fays he , is in Poetry what colouring is in painting , * POPE's Essay on Criticism . Lord LANSDOWN , a beautiful ornament . But if the proportions are juft B 3 INTRODUCTIO N.
... great taste and judgment S. Verfifica- tion , fays he , is in Poetry what colouring is in painting , * POPE's Essay on Criticism . Lord LANSDOWN , a beautiful ornament . But if the proportions are juft B 3 INTRODUCTIO N.
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... fays , A needlefs Alexandrine ends the song , That , like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along . Verses of fourteen fyllables are not fo often used as those of twelve ; but they are likewife inferted in heroic poems , and are ...
... fays , A needlefs Alexandrine ends the song , That , like a wounded fnake , drags its flow length along . Verses of fourteen fyllables are not fo often used as those of twelve ; but they are likewife inferted in heroic poems , and are ...
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... fay fomething of the elifions or con- traclions that are admitted in our poetry , according as the measure requires . CHAP . IV . Of the ELISIONS allowed of in ENGLISH POETRY ; and fome mifcellaneous Remarks . ELifion is the cutting off ...
... fay fomething of the elifions or con- traclions that are admitted in our poetry , according as the measure requires . CHAP . IV . Of the ELISIONS allowed of in ENGLISH POETRY ; and fome mifcellaneous Remarks . ELifion is the cutting off ...
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... fay fomething on thefe fubjects , which are the foundation of elegance and fublimity . Thoughts may , not improperly , be called the founda- tion or body of a poem , or difcourfe ; and the ftyle , or diction , the dress with which they ...
... fay fomething on thefe fubjects , which are the foundation of elegance and fublimity . Thoughts may , not improperly , be called the founda- tion or body of a poem , or difcourfe ; and the ftyle , or diction , the dress with which they ...
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... fays father Bou- bours , is to thoughts what foundations are to buildings , it fupports and gives them folidity ; but a building which has nothing to recommend it but folidity , will not please those who are killed in architecture ...
... fays father Bou- bours , is to thoughts what foundations are to buildings , it fupports and gives them folidity ; but a building which has nothing to recommend it but folidity , will not please those who are killed in architecture ...
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Página 74 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 131 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 163 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent; Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 137 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
Página 32 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?
Página 78 - Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth, to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frown'd not on his humble birth, And melancholy mark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere...
Página 25 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Página 167 - Who for thy table feeds the wanton fawn, For him as kindly spread the flow'ry lawn: Is it for thee the lark ascends and sings? Joy tunes his voice, joy elevates his wings.
Página 76 - Lot forbad : nor circumscrib'd alone Their growing Virtues, but their Crimes confin'd ; Forbad to wade through Slaughter to a Throne, And...
Página 163 - The great directing mind of all ordains. All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul ; That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same ; Great in the Earth, as in th...