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The Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, Հատոր 14 Thomas De Quincey,David Masson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1897 |
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Էջ 288 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Էջ 288 - ... to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion : for so in physic things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.
Էջ 309 - Have gloz^d, but superficially ; not much Unlike young men, whom Aristotle thought Unfit to hear moral philosophy. The reasons you allege do more conduce To the hot passion of...
Էջ 114 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state, With daring aims irregularly great. Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Էջ 281 - And beauty, for confiding youth, Those shocks of passion can prepare That kill the bloom before its time; And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair.
Էջ 263 - The most remarkable instance of a combined movement in society which history, perhaps, will be summoned to notice, is that which, in our day, has applied itself to the abatement of intemperance. Two vast movements are hurrying into action by velocities continually accelerated, — the great revolutionary movement from political causes concurring with the great physical movement...
Էջ 144 - Irish engineer officer, who had been employed in converting them into practicable military roads, and whose eulogium begins, and, for aught I know, ends, as follows: Had you seen but these roads before they were made, You would have held up your hands and bless'd General Wade.
Էջ 62 - I design to extract are his audita et visa, from the supplements to his chapters—that which he saw with his own eyes, and heard with his own ears...
Էջ 38 - to reward no boy for fragments, whatever may be their excellence. We know nothing of his exertions until they come before us in a state of completion." Hence, besides gaining the " habit of finishing" in early youth, the boy has an interest also in gaining the habit of measuring his own powers : for he knows " that he can receive neither fame nor profit by instalments...
Էջ 18 - The boys learn almost every branch of study in classes, that the master may have time for copious explanations ; it being an object of great anxiety with us, that the pupil should be led to reason upon all his operations. Economy of time is a matter of importance with us : we look upon all restraint as an evil, and to young persons as a very serious evil : we are therefore constantly in search of means for ensuring the effective employment of every minute which is spent in the school-room, that the...