A Critical Dissertation on the Nature and Principles of Taste, 1. kötetSherwood, Jones, 1823 - 408 oldal |
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... Boileau ; and as to Homer , his writings were only calcu- lated for the gross age in which he lived . He wanted that poetic melancholy , or what may be more properly termed , that romantic insanity , on which Madame de Staël dwells with ...
... Boileau ; and as to Homer , his writings were only calcu- lated for the gross age in which he lived . He wanted that poetic melancholy , or what may be more properly termed , that romantic insanity , on which Madame de Staël dwells with ...
216. oldal
... Boileau , and Fenelon , were learned , but their learning did not vitiate their taste : there is rather every reason to believe that it improved it in no small degree . Shakspeare is an illustrious ex- ample how much natural genius ...
... Boileau , and Fenelon , were learned , but their learning did not vitiate their taste : there is rather every reason to believe that it improved it in no small degree . Shakspeare is an illustrious ex- ample how much natural genius ...
223. oldal
... Boileau is a literal imitator of Horace ; Montesquieu owes the best passages in his Spirit of Laws to Aristotle ; nor is Rousseau , the child of nature , less indebted to Seneca and Montaigne . The English poets have not imitated less ...
... Boileau is a literal imitator of Horace ; Montesquieu owes the best passages in his Spirit of Laws to Aristotle ; nor is Rousseau , the child of nature , less indebted to Seneca and Montaigne . The English poets have not imitated less ...
305. oldal
... Boileau , that , -Souvent un esprit qui se flatte et qui s'aime Méconnoit son génie , et s'ignore soi - même : — and therefore , however much he might be attached by his feelings to the grand style of Angelo , his judgment repressed ...
... Boileau , that , -Souvent un esprit qui se flatte et qui s'aime Méconnoit son génie , et s'ignore soi - même : — and therefore , however much he might be attached by his feelings to the grand style of Angelo , his judgment repressed ...
337. oldal
... Boileau and Huet ; the former agreeing with , and the latter dissent- ing from , the authority of Longinus . It would seem , that erroneous principles could never lead us to form the same judgment which a just feeling would primarily ...
... Boileau and Huet ; the former agreeing with , and the latter dissent- ing from , the authority of Longinus . It would seem , that erroneous principles could never lead us to form the same judgment which a just feeling would primarily ...
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acquainted admiration admit adopt Æneid affected agreeable Angelo appear argument authority Bernini blank verse Boileau cause cerning character choly circumstances common feeling conclusions correct courser criticism delight discern discover discussion distinct doubt elegant emotion equally error excite existence expression exquisite faculty false fashion forms founded genius give habit Homer Hudibras ideas of beauty ignorant Iliad imagination imitation impart impression influence intellectual ject judgment Knight knowledge less Lord Kames Madame de Staël manner melan ment Milton mind nature necessarily never object of taste obscurity observed obvious opinion original Ossian painting passage passion perceive perception perfect philosophy pleasing pleasure poetry poets Pope possess present principles of taste produce prove Ptolemy qualities of beauty racter reason refined Rembrandt render rience Satan says scepticism sensation sense sensibility sentiment shew shewn Sir Joshua Reynolds style sublime suppose tain Theramene thing thought tion true truth Virgil writers
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107. oldal - Yes ! let the rich deride, the proud disdain, These simple blessings of the lowly train, To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art...
202. oldal - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth, and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday...
330. oldal - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
125. oldal - First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring Nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty, must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of Art. Art from that fund each just supply provides; Works without show, and without pomp presides: In some fair body thus th...
56. oldal - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause.
156. oldal - O my soul's joy ! If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death ! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high ; and duck again as low As hell's from heaven ! If it were now to die, 'Twere now to be most happy ; for, I fear, My soul hath her content so absolute, That not another comfort like to this Succeeds in unknown fate.
141. oldal - THAT HE HAD A HEAD TO CONTRIVE, A TONGUE TO PERSUADE, AND A HAND TO EXECUTE ANY MISCHIEF.
333. oldal - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd, that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb, Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either ; black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
315. oldal - Its gaudy colours spreads on every place ; The face of nature we no more survey, All glares alike, without distinction gay ; But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, Clears and improves whate'er it shines upon ; It gilds all objects, but it alters none.
240. oldal - ... kinds of thoughts which are carefully to be avoided. The first are such as are affected and unnatural ; the second, such as are mean and vulgar. As for the first kind of thoughts, we meet with little or nothing that is like them in Virgil : he has none of those trifling...