Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 sider |
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Side 3
... poet's imitation . It has been observed that the third act of this piece is shorter than the others : from this it may be gathered , say the critics , that the ancients took little pains to preserve an uniformity of length in the ...
... poet's imitation . It has been observed that the third act of this piece is shorter than the others : from this it may be gathered , say the critics , that the ancients took little pains to preserve an uniformity of length in the ...
Side 6
... poet has a deeper meaning ; he wishes to teach us that the civilized Greek could be brave at the same time that he wept , while in the uncivilized Trojan all human feelings were to be previously stifled . Νεμέσσωμαί γε μεν ovdev xλázev ...
... poet has a deeper meaning ; he wishes to teach us that the civilized Greek could be brave at the same time that he wept , while in the uncivilized Trojan all human feelings were to be previously stifled . Νεμέσσωμαί γε μεν ovdev xλázev ...
Side 7
... poet had handled his subject ; but of this I feel certain that Laocoon would not have been drawn more stoically than Philoctetes and Hercules . All stoicism is undramatical ; and our sympathy is always proportioned to the suffering ...
... poet had handled his subject ; but of this I feel certain that Laocoon would not have been drawn more stoically than Philoctetes and Hercules . All stoicism is undramatical ; and our sympathy is always proportioned to the suffering ...
Side 19
... poet , who censures him , says very sensibly , whilst addressing the figure a a Philippus , Anthol . Lib . IV . Cap . ix . Ep . 10.- ̓Αιεὶ γὰρ διψᾷς βρεφέων φόνον . ἦ τις Ιήσων Δέυτερος , ἢ Γλαύκη τις πάλι σοι πρόφασις ; Ερρε καὶ ἐν ...
... poet , who censures him , says very sensibly , whilst addressing the figure a a Philippus , Anthol . Lib . IV . Cap . ix . Ep . 10.- ̓Αιεὶ γὰρ διψᾷς βρεφέων φόνον . ἦ τις Ιήσων Δέυτερος , ἢ Γλαύκη τις πάλι σοι πρόφασις ; Ερρε καὶ ἐν ...
Side 22
... poet has failed to make a due impression on him . Moreover , the poet is not compelled to concen- trate his picture into the space of a single moment . He has it in his power to take up every action of his hero at its source , and ...
... poet has failed to make a due impression on him . Moreover , the poet is not compelled to concen- trate his picture into the space of a single moment . He has it in his power to take up every action of his hero at its source , and ...
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Side 166 - Thou, nature, art my goddess ; to thy law My services are bound : Wherefore should I Stand in the plague of custom ; and permit The curiosity of nations to deprive me, For that I am some twelve or fourteen moonshines Lag of a brother...
Side 167 - But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamp'd, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph...
Side 151 - Bianca nieve è il bel collo, e '1 petto latte; il collo è tondo, il petto colmo e largo: due pome acerbe, e pur d'avorio fatte, vengono e van come onda al primo margo, quando piacevole aura il mar combatte.
Side 51 - Bis medium amplexi, bis collo squamea circum Terga dati, superant capite et cervicibus altis.
Side 167 - Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them; Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace...
Side 167 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up...
Side 140 - Di persona era tanto ben formata, quanto me' finger san pittori industri ; con bionda chioma lunga et annodata: oro non è che più risplenda e lustri. Spargeasi per la guancia delicata misto color di rose e di ligustri; di terso avorio era la fronte lieta, che lo spazio finia con giusta meta.
Side 220 - Sollemnis taurum ingentem mactabat ad aras. Ecce autem gemini a Tenedo tranquilla per alta (Horresco referens) immensis orbibus angues Incumbunt pelago, pariterque ad litora tendunt : Pectora quorum inter fluctus arrecta, jubaeque Sanguineae exsuperant undas : pars cetera pontum Pone legit, sinuatque immensa volumine terga.
Side 141 - La bocca sparsa di natio cinabro; Quivi due filze son di perle elette, Che chiude ed apre un bello, e dolce labro: Quindi escon le cortesi parolette Da render molle ogni cor rozzo e scabro: Quivi si forma quel soave riso, Ch'apre a sua posta in terra il paradiso. Bianca neve è il bel collo, e...
Side 244 - Soft were my numbers ; who could take offence While pure description held the place of sense ? Like gentle Fanny's was my flow'ry theme, A painted mistress, or a purling stream.