The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things : in Two Volumes, Հատոր 1Henry Colburn, New Burlington-Street, 1826 - 912 էջ |
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... greater number of inversions , or a latitude in the transposition of words is allowed , which is not conformable to the strict laws of prose . Consequently , a poet will be at a loss , and flounder about for the common or ( as we ...
... greater number of inversions , or a latitude in the transposition of words is allowed , which is not conformable to the strict laws of prose . Consequently , a poet will be at a loss , and flounder about for the common or ( as we ...
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... greater grandeur . But in treating a common subject , the link is truth , force of illustration , weight of argument , not a graceful harmony in the immediate ideas ; and hence the obvious 12 ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF POETS .
... greater grandeur . But in treating a common subject , the link is truth , force of illustration , weight of argument , not a graceful harmony in the immediate ideas ; and hence the obvious 12 ON THE PROSE - STYLE OF POETS .
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... greater victories than Demosthenes or Cicero ever gained in far more easy fields of strife ; nay , he wrought miracles of speech , outvying those miracles of song , which Orpheus is said to have performed , when not only men and brutes ...
... greater victories than Demosthenes or Cicero ever gained in far more easy fields of strife ; nay , he wrought miracles of speech , outvying those miracles of song , which Orpheus is said to have performed , when not only men and brutes ...
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... greater than his subject ; filling his fancy with fumes . and vapours in the pangs and throes of mira- culous parturition , and bringing forth only still births . He has an incessant craving , as it were , to exalt every idea into a ...
... greater than his subject ; filling his fancy with fumes . and vapours in the pangs and throes of mira- culous parturition , and bringing forth only still births . He has an incessant craving , as it were , to exalt every idea into a ...
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... greater numbness of my memory . This phenomenon is not asto- nishing , unless we chuse in all such cases to put the cart before the horse . For in fact , it is the mind that sleeps , and the senses ( so to speak ) only follow the ...
... greater numbness of my memory . This phenomenon is not asto- nishing , unless we chuse in all such cases to put the cart before the horse . For in fact , it is the mind that sleeps , and the senses ( so to speak ) only follow the ...
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The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Հատոր 1 William Hazlitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1826 |
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Հատոր 1 William Hazlitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1826 |
The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things, Հատոր 1 William Hazlitt Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1826 |
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Էջ 173 - Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen Full many a sprightly race Disporting on thy margent green The paths of pleasure trace; Who foremost now delight to cleave With pliant arm, thy glassy wave? The captive linnet which enthral? What idle progeny succeed To chase the rolling circle's speed, Or urge the flying ball?
Էջ 146 - Take the instant way For honour travels in a strait so narrow, W'here one but goes abreast: keep then the path; For emulation hath a thousand sons, That one by one pursue: If you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost...
Էջ 403 - And time and place are lost: where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal Anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce Strive here for mastery...
Էջ 137 - What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion : the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms were then to me An appetite ; a feeling and a love That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrowed from the eye.
Էջ 398 - Wharton, the scorn and wonder of our days, Whose ruling passion was the lust of praise ; Born with whate'er could win it from the wise, 'Women and fools must like him, or he dies : Though wondering senates hung on all he spoke, The club must hail him master of the joke.
Էջ 147 - That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arms outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer : welcome ever smiles, And farewell goes out sighing. O ! let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was ; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time. One touch of nature makes the whole world kin...
Էջ 147 - O'er-run and trampled on : Then what they do in present, Though less than yours in past, must o'ertop yours...
Էջ 122 - Bos. Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out: The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. Ferd. Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
Էջ 135 - A jest's prosperity lies in the ear • Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it : then, if sickly ears, Deaf 'd with the clamours of their own dear groans.
Էջ 293 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues.