The art of poetry on a new plan, illustrated with a great variety of examples [compiled by J. Newbery, revised by O. Goldsmith]. |
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Էջ 27
Comparisons and descriptions , taken from florid and delightful subjects , form
agreeable thoughts , in the same manner as those we take from grand subjects
form those that are sublime . The writings of the holy penmen are replete with
these ...
Comparisons and descriptions , taken from florid and delightful subjects , form
agreeable thoughts , in the same manner as those we take from grand subjects
form those that are sublime . The writings of the holy penmen are replete with
these ...
Էջ 34
Agreeable and well conceived fictions have also a good effect either in prose or
verse , and always please readers of taste and judgement . Pliny the younger , in
order to engage Cornelius Tacitus to follow his example , and study even when ...
Agreeable and well conceived fictions have also a good effect either in prose or
verse , and always please readers of taste and judgement . Pliny the younger , in
order to engage Cornelius Tacitus to follow his example , and study even when ...
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Metaphors are always agreeable , and have a good ef . fect when they are drawn
from nature , and connect ideas that have a due relation to each other ; but when
they are forced , foreign , and obscure , they are altogether as insipid , absurd ...
Metaphors are always agreeable , and have a good ef . fect when they are drawn
from nature , and connect ideas that have a due relation to each other ; but when
they are forced , foreign , and obscure , they are altogether as insipid , absurd ...
Էջ 70
In process of time not only matters of grief , but joy , wishes , prayers ,
expoftulations , reproaches , admonitions , and almost every other fubje & , were
admitted into Elegy ; however , funeral lamentations and affairs of love seem moit
agreeable ...
In process of time not only matters of grief , but joy , wishes , prayers ,
expoftulations , reproaches , admonitions , and almost every other fubje & , were
admitted into Elegy ; however , funeral lamentations and affairs of love seem moit
agreeable ...
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... agreeable to the general order of things , and conformable to ends and
relations to him unknown ; that it is partly upon his ignorance of future events ,
and partly upon the hope of a future ftate , that all his happiness in 01 the present
depends ...
... agreeable to the general order of things , and conformable to ends and
relations to him unknown ; that it is partly upon his ignorance of future events ,
and partly upon the hope of a future ftate , that all his happiness in 01 the present
depends ...
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