Elements of Criticism, Volume 2Scott and Seguine, 1819 - Aesthetics |
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... laid down . I proceed as usual to il- lustrate this rule by examples . The following pe- riod is placed in its natural order . Were instruction an essential circumstance in epic poetry , I SECT . II . ] 57 Beauty of Language .
... laid down . I proceed as usual to il- lustrate this rule by examples . The following pe- riod is placed in its natural order . Were instruction an essential circumstance in epic poetry , I SECT . II . ] 57 Beauty of Language .
Page 58
... epic poetry , I doubt whether , in any language , a single instance could be given of this species of composition . Some of our most eminent divines have made use of this Pla- tonic notion , as far as it regards the subsistence of our ...
... epic poetry , I doubt whether , in any language , a single instance could be given of this species of composition . Some of our most eminent divines have made use of this Pla- tonic notion , as far as it regards the subsistence of our ...
Page 85
... epic poem in any other verse would not succeed . * One defect , however , must not be dissembled , that the same means which contribute to the richness of the melody , render it less fit than several other sorts for a narrative poem ...
... epic poem in any other verse would not succeed . * One defect , however , must not be dissembled , that the same means which contribute to the richness of the melody , render it less fit than several other sorts for a narrative poem ...
Page 129
... epic poem in that language . The cheering and enlivening power of rhyme , is still more remarkable in poems of short lines , where the rhymes return upon the ear in a quick succession ; for which reason rhyme is perfectly well adapted ...
... epic poem in that language . The cheering and enlivening power of rhyme , is still more remarkable in poems of short lines , where the rhymes return upon the ear in a quick succession ; for which reason rhyme is perfectly well adapted ...
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... epic poem , or in a poem upon any elevated subject , a writer ought to avoid raising a simile on a low image , which never fails to bring down the principal subject . In general , it is a rule , That a grand object ought never to be ...
... epic poem , or in a poem upon any elevated subject , a writer ought to avoid raising a simile on a low image , which never fails to bring down the principal subject . In general , it is a rule , That a grand object ought never to be ...
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Page 171 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast, Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge. And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf ning clamours in the slippery clouds...
Page 235 - There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond...
Page 242 - But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time ; If ever you have look'd on better days, If ever been where bells have knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 142 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 201 - For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Page 148 - Give me my Romeo, and when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine, That all the world will be in love with night, And pay no worship to the garish Sun.
Page 233 - One cried, God bless us ! and, Amen, the other ; As they had seen me, with these hangman's hands, Listening their fear. I could not say, amen, When they did say, God bless us.
Page 140 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Page 242 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 201 - My well-beloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: and he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: And he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.