Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition, Addressed to His SonBradford and Inskeep, 1809 - 363 էջ |
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... remark , as " he is a happy man , who plays well the part which is assigned him . " But this would not attract and engage the reader like the picture which he draws of the different and almost contrasted characters in which the same man ...
... remark , as " he is a happy man , who plays well the part which is assigned him . " But this would not attract and engage the reader like the picture which he draws of the different and almost contrasted characters in which the same man ...
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... from their natural and primitve meaning . Dr. Blair used to remark on this subject , that at the moment he was I speaking on a didactic subject , he was addressing his LETTER X Figurative Language Comparisons and Similies.
... from their natural and primitve meaning . Dr. Blair used to remark on this subject , that at the moment he was I speaking on a didactic subject , he was addressing his LETTER X Figurative Language Comparisons and Similies.
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... remark in the similies of the Hebrews , and of the Orientals in gene- ral , that the resemblance is often too fanciful and re- mote . Of this I shall produce an instance from the book of Job , c . vi . v . 15 ..... 20 . " My brethren ...
... remark in the similies of the Hebrews , and of the Orientals in gene- ral , that the resemblance is often too fanciful and re- mote . Of this I shall produce an instance from the book of Job , c . vi . v . 15 ..... 20 . " My brethren ...
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... remark , how- ever , that no figure is more delicate or difficult in the hands of a young writer . If the great difficulty in the use of a metaphor is to preserve the allusion in all its parts , how much must the difficulty be increased ...
... remark , how- ever , that no figure is more delicate or difficult in the hands of a young writer . If the great difficulty in the use of a metaphor is to preserve the allusion in all its parts , how much must the difficulty be increased ...
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... remark , that as they always appear the effect of study , they are never natural in im- passioned language . On the stage , therefore , they are seldom introduced with propriety , as they are neither the suitable expression of passion ...
... remark , that as they always appear the effect of study , they are never natural in im- passioned language . On the stage , therefore , they are seldom introduced with propriety , as they are neither the suitable expression of passion ...
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Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Հատոր 1 George Gregory Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1808 |
Letters on Literature, Taste, and Composition: Addressed to His Son, Հատոր 1 George Gregory Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1808 |
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Էջ 76 - In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease, because they are few, and those that look out of the windows, be darkened ; And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low...
Էջ 15 - I ran it through, even from my boyish days, To the very moment that he bade me tell it : Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents, by flood, and field ; Of hair-breadth scapes i...
Էջ 23 - As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er Heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene ; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumber'd gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head...
Էջ 298 - Tis fill'd wherever thou dost tread, Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Thou dost drink, and dance, and sing, Happier than the happiest king ! All the fields which thou dost see, All the plants belong to thee, All that summer hours produce. Fertile made with early juice : Man for thee does sow and plough ; Farmer he and landlord thou ! Thou dost innocently joy, Nor does thy luxury destroy.
Էջ 69 - Are they Hebrews ? so am I. Are they Israelites ? so am I ; Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. Are they the ministers of Christ ? (I speak as a fool,) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft...
Էջ 78 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, With blossom'd furze unprofitably gay — There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view ; I knew him well, and every truant knew: Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face; Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee At all his jokes, for many a joke had he...
Էջ 273 - Honour and shame from no Condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Էջ 122 - Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more ; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one. Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep...
Էջ 206 - Of Gilbert Walmsley, thus presented to my mind, let me indulge myself in the remembrance. I knew him very early ; he was one of the first friends that literature procured me, and I hope that at least my gratitude made me worthy of his notice. He was of an advanced age, and I was only not a boy; yet he never received my notions with contempt. He was a Whig, with all the virulence and malevolence of his party; yet difference of opinion did not keep us apart. I honoured him, and he endured me.
Էջ 74 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.