Lectures on the English Comic WritersTaylor & Hessey, 1819 - 436 oldal |
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23. oldal
... poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted , and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and ...
... poetry , is the imagination or fancy inverted , and so applied to given objects , as to make the little look less , the mean more light and worthless ; or to divert our admiration or wean our affections from that which is lofty and ...
27. oldal
... poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer " And not till then ! " Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the gratitude of place- expectants , " That it is a lively sense of future favours , " is no ...
... poets would be read and admired when Homer and Virgil were forgotten , " made answer " And not till then ! " Sir Robert Walpole's definition of the gratitude of place- expectants , " That it is a lively sense of future favours , " is no ...
34. oldal
... poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to another purpose , has often the effect of the liveliest wit . An idle fellow who had only ...
... poetry would hardly be acknowledged as such without the rhyme to clench it . A quotation or a hackneyed phrase dextrously turned or wrested to another purpose , has often the effect of the liveliest wit . An idle fellow who had only ...
38. oldal
... poetry or imagination to wit , that the former does not admit of mere verbal com- binations . Whenever they do occur , they are uniformly blemishes . It requires something more solid and substantial to raise admiration or pas- sion ...
... poetry or imagination to wit , that the former does not admit of mere verbal com- binations . Whenever they do occur , they are uniformly blemishes . It requires something more solid and substantial to raise admiration or pas- sion ...
39. oldal
... poetry is naturally to let down and lessen ; and it is easier to let down than to raise up , to weaken than to strengthen , to dis- connect our sympathy from passion and power , than to attach and rivet it to any object of gran- deur or ...
... poetry is naturally to let down and lessen ; and it is easier to let down than to raise up , to weaken than to strengthen , to dis- connect our sympathy from passion and power , than to attach and rivet it to any object of gran- deur or ...
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